Media Release

Karkala, Aug 27: NMAMIT Nitte, department of Mechanical Engineering won the prestigious Fluid Power Society of India’s award and cash prize for best student project on 'Design and Fabrication of Patient Lift and Shift system'.

The award was presented and exhibited at Fluid Power Professionals’ Day 2018 on account of the birth anniversary of French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian Blaise Pascal during Fluid Power Technical Seminar – FPTS 2018 held on June 19 and 20 at Prof MRD auditorium, PES University, Bengaluru.

The project work was carried out under the guidance of Melwyn R Castelino, associate professor. The award, cash prize and certificate were received by Dr Shashikantha Karinka, head of Mechanical Department, NMAMIT Nitte from Yoganarasimha M S, industrial consultant, technical committee member - FPSI and Ramakantha Murthy, technical committee member - FPSI at a function at FPSI office, Bengaluru recently.

Today majority of operations and coordinations are carried out manually in hospitals. Nurses are at high risk of work related musculoskeletal injuries by
performing lifting, bending and twisting. This project aims at developing patient lift and shift system for efficient and automated operations. The device can be used to lift patients while changing their bedspread and to transfer patients from trolleys to the bed and vice versa. These solutions are aimed at reducing manual operations and stress on nurses/ward boys. The side effects of manual lifting namely musculoskeletal injuries are reduced. Stress and pain experienced by the patient is also reduced.

This project was funded under the NU-NET collaborative research project of Nitte University.