This design conjecture is intended to address the locations in which portable ventilators are currently located or where they may end up during patient transportation.
Currently, portable ventilators are either attached loosely to the outside of the patient’s hospital bed or placed directly onto the bed against the patient. When the machine is placed on the outside of the bed, it will continuously be bumped and knocked into advocating for it to fall to the floor on numerous occasions. When the machine is placed against the patient, it will cause further discomfort due to the machines resting weight. As a result of the varying floor terrains (tile), hallway opening sizings, elevator sizings, and ramp elevation changes, such transitions will lead to continuous ventilator fallings onto the floor and/or tumbles on the bed against the patient.
This poses the question of “why haven’t solutions be developed to address these problems already?” Through this conjecture, there is a present opportunity to address portable ventilators and their docking locations during a patient transportation, for example under the hospital bed. This would allow for ease of access, cord management, and reduction of current, inefficient, ventilator placements.
