Overview

Health care practitioners, planners and artisans will find ideas and designs for equipment that can be made locally in relatively small workshops. Alternative materials and fabrication methods are described to meet differing local circumstances.

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Author:   Adam Platt ,  Nicola Carter
Publisher:   Practical Action Publishing
Imprint:   Practical Action Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 25.80cm
Weight:   0.210kg
ISBN:  

9781853390678

ISBN 10:   1853390674
Pages:   88
Publication Date:   15 December 1990
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Basic construction hints: basic ""A"" frame; low-cost wheels; tricks with bicycle parts; cushions. Part 2 Designs for hospital furniture: folding hospital beds; ward screen; blood transfusion drip stand; bedside table and locker; hospital wheelchairs; patients' trolleys; ""A"" frame trolleys. Part 3 Tricycles, wheelchairs and carts: front-wheel-drive tricycles; rear-wheel-drive tricycles; the ATI-Hotchkiss wheelchair. Part 4 Physiotherapy and orthopaedic equipment: parallel bars; walking frames; thermoplastic aids; supine exercising machine; calipers; jaipur limb. Part 5 Laboratory equipment: haematocrit centrifuge; constant temperature water bath; hospital water still. Part 6 Maternity and infant care equipment: baby resuscitation tables; phototherapy box for neonatal jaundice; premature baby incubator; suction pump for newborn infants; squatting chair for delivery. Part 7 Making a business of it. Part 8 Resources."

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