Patients who need to be airlifted to treatment can become injured in stretcher accidents during transport. Reducing the number of times a patient needs to be transferred between stretchers during transport could lessen the number of medical air transport injuries. RAPTER, or Remote Access Patient Transfer, is a patient loading system that provides a smoother and safer method for transporting stretchers.
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Student team
Rem Baumann
Brian Cook
Bryce Hobbs
Brandon Martz
Katie Woodard
Mentoring team
Will Hamilton (Island Air)
Jackie Hamilton (Island Air)
Jonathan Posner, PhD (Mechanical Engineering)
Per Reinhall, PhD (Mechanical Engineering)
Fred Silverstein, MD (UW Medicine)
Nathan White, MD, MS (Emergency Medicine)
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