Ambulance cleanliness is a large factor in the occurrence of HCAI’s in the United States. Thus, a suitable device, if equipped onboard ambulances, could allow EMS personnel to clean any contamination quickly and without having to finish the transport. The scope of this project was to design a suitable medical vacuum cleaner that effectively cleans a during-transport body fluid spill. Designs were analyzed via computer simulations, and results of these designs imply that such a vacuum cleaner would provide excellent cleaning power with very little effort from paramedics. Furthermore, the designed cleaner would have a profound impact on the cleanliness of any ambulances which implement it, and this impact has worldwide implications about the future of EMS cleanliness.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Beall, Jackson Dain
• Jhunjhunwala, Rohan
• Garnet, Ariel Shaunna

Subject

• Security
• Health
• Innovation
• Well-Being
• Industry

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050914-150158

Palavra-chave

• Computer simulation
• Medical care

Advisor

• Fofana, Mustapha S.

Year

• 2014

Date created

• 2014-05-09

Localização

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright