To understand and mitigate infant patient vibration exposure during emergency ground and air transport

了解并减轻紧急地面和空中运输期间婴儿患者的振动暴露

• 批准号: 549669-2020
• 负责人: Langlois, RobertRG
• 金额: $ 3.7万
• 依托单位: Carleton University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Health Research Projects
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=759488
• 关键词: understand; mitigate; infant; patient; vibration

Each year, thousands of newborns in Canada are transported by air or ground ambulance toreceive specialized medical care. These infants are often premature and especially vulnerableduring transport. Vibration exposure during transport may contribute risk of serious long-termconsequences including brain injury. To decease risk during transport, specialized equipmentis used. However, vibration levels experienced by infants and contributing factors are not wellunderstood. This lack of knowledge affects the ability to transport newborn patients in thesafest manner possible.Our goal is to increase the safety of infant transport by reducing vibration exposure. Wepropose a research program which seeks to understand how vibrations caused by the roadand air environments are transferred to the infant. This will allow us to propose novel methodsto reduce vibration exposure and improve the equipment for transporting fragile infants. Wewill measure vibrations in many transport scenarios including within hospitals as well as inground ambulances, helicopters, and airplanes. The results will be used to develop testequipment and procedures for evaluating the transport equipment. This research will enablebetter understanding of the problem and provide a reliable way to test the transportequipment and procedures. It will lead to new tools for planning routes that minimize vibrationand for monitoring patient vibration.Our research brings together expertise in pediatrics and engineering to study novel solutionsto this problem. The team includes engineers from Carleton University and physicians fromlarge childrens hospitals (CHEO in Ottawa, SickKids in Toronto). The physicians represent aprovincial committee tasked with providing advice and recommendations to improve safety,quality of care, and the patients and familys experience. This collaboration will ensure thatthe results are communicated to the clinicians who can impact positive change.

每年，加拿大成千上万的新生儿都是通过空中或地面救护车的专业医疗服务来运输的。这些婴儿通常过早，尤其是脆弱的运输。运输过程中的振动暴露可能会导致严重的长期导致脑损伤（包括脑损伤）的风险。为了在运输过程中降低风险，使用专门设备。但是，婴儿经历的振动水平和促成因素尚未得到充分意识。缺乏知识会影响以最可能的方式运输新生儿的能力。我们的目标是通过减少振动暴露来提高婴儿运输的安全性。 Wepropose一项研究计划，旨在了解野外空气环境引起的振动是如何转移给婴儿的。这将使我们能够提出新颖的方法，以减少振动的暴露并改善运输脆弱婴儿的设备。我们将在许多运输场景中测量振动，包括医院内部以及内陆救护车，直升机和飞机。结果将用于开发用于评估运输设备的测试设备和程序。这项研究将使人们了解问题，并提供一种可靠的方法来测试运输设备和程序。它将导致新的工具来规划最大程度地减少振动和监测患者振动的途径。我们的研究汇集了儿科和工程方面的专业知识，以研究新的解决方案。该团队包括卡尔顿大学的工程师和来自LARARGE儿童医院的医生（渥太华的Cheo，多伦多的Sickkids）。医师代表的委员会任务提供建议和建议，以提高安全性，护理质量以及患者和家庭的经验。这项合作将确保将结果传达给可以影响积极变化的临床医生。