Project description
Background: Purple House weighs around 50 dialysis patients every day, both before and after treatment. Pre- and post-dialysis patient weights are critical to optimising the effectiveness of treatment. Patients with mobility issues require weights to be taken on platform or wheelchair scales. By building scales into dialysis chairs, patient weights could be continuously monitored, automatically recorded and otherwise save precious floor-area. The project: To optimise and scale an existing design, and to further evaluate the process of integrating with existing medical devices via various regulatory channels.
Co-supervisors
Dr Michael Smith, Purple House Jodie Hobbs, Flinders University
Assumed knowledge
Suits: Electronics or mechanical and biomedical engineering design
Industry involvement
Purple House is an innovative Indigenous-owned and run health service operating from its base in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Purple House provides dialysis in the most remote parts of Australia, operating 18 remote clinics and a mobile dialysis unit called the Purple Truck.
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