Design and Fabrication of Remote Controlled Multi-Axis Operation theatre BED

The idea of this paper targets severely injured patients who have to be operated upon immediately. In critical cases, the patient is advised not to be moved frequently; but moving him from the stretcher to the operation theatre table is inevitable. Hence wheels have been attached to the table itself for easy movement. The wheels can be locked when surgery is being performed, so that the table is steady. The need not be moved or turned on the table to operate on the affected parts; this is accomplished by giving rotation to the table to the required angle. The model of this work has four degrees of freedom. It has one linear motion and three rotational motions. The bed is divided into three parts. Two micro-controller units are used along with an IR-TSOP1738 transmitter and IR-TSAL7300 receiver in a remote control system. Using this, the parts can be individually turned or titled to the required angle. The other merits of using this bed include; the patient need not be shifted to another bed after surgery, as the model serves the purpose of operation theatre table and a bed, the patient himself can adjust the bed to his comfort, regular monitoring of the patient is done by incorporating temperature sensors. The main objective of the paper is to develop a wireless remote to operate the multi axis operation theatre table.