Wheel+

Dialysis patients might faint or feel nauseated and dizzy due to low blood pressure in the body after hemo-dialysis, which is performed three times a week. It can be a very challenging task for the caregivers to transfer the patient between car and dialysis units, especially for a non-professional caregiver such a parent, partner, or a child of the patient. The current solutions act more as passive solutions, i.e. additional equipment that is used with the wheelchair itself to transfer patients. In this project, I am attempting to re-design the basic structure of a wheelchair, to come up with integrated active equipment which can be used to transfer patients between bed/car and wheelchair.