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[Design and application of medical electric leg-raising machine]
Jintang Liang1, Jinyuan Chen, Zixian Zhao
1Department of Critical Care Medicine, Jiangmen Xinhui People's Hospital (Xinhui Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University), Jiangmen 529100, Guangdong, China (Liang JT, Chen JY, Lin JF, Zhong JL); Department of Blood Transfusion, Jiangmen Xinhui People's Hospital (Xinhui Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University), Jiangmen 529100, Guangdong, China (Zhao ZX); Department of Laboratory, Jiangmen Xinhui People's Hospital (Xinhui Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University), Jiangmen 529100, Guangdong, China (Li JH). Corresponding author: Chen Jinyuan,
Objective:
Passive leg raising is widely used in clinic, but it lacks of specialized mechanical raise equipment. It requires medical staff to raise leg by hand or requires a multi-functional bed to raise leg, which takes time and effort. Therefore we have developed a new medical electric leg-raising machine. The equipment has the following characteristics: simple structure, stable performance, easy operation, fast and effective, safe and comfortable. The height range of the lifter is 50-120 cm, the range of the angle of raising leg is 10degree angle-80degree angle, the maximum supporting weight is 40 kg. Because of raising the height of the lower limbs and making precise angle, this equipment can completely replace the traditional manner of lifting leg by hand with multi-functional bed to lift patients' leg and can reduce the physical exhaustion and time consumption of medical staff. It can change the settings at any time to meet the needs of the patient; can be applied to the testing of PLR and dynamically assessing the hemodynamics; can prevent deep vein thrombosis and some related complications of staying in bed; and the machine is easy to be cleaned and disinfected, which can effectively avoid hospital acquired infection and cross infection; and can also be applied to emergency rescue of various disasters and emergencies.

