Development of a completely portable, integrated, lightweight, airworthy Patient Transportation Unit with lightweight oxygen supply for use in all transport aircraft and helicopters of the IAF

Equipment: Each PTU will consist of the below mentioned equipment mounted on a rigid stretcher structure.
The equipment to be mounted is as follows:
• Transport Ventilator
• Defibrillator
• Multi-Parameter patient monitor
• Syringe infusion pump
• Suction apparatus
• 8 h battery life
• 3600 liters of oxygen in a carbon fiber cylinder, pressurized at 180 Kg/cm2.
DISC X | Challenges 6
• The cylinder is to be mounted on castor wheels so as to allow it to be dragged as a trolley.
The equipment is to be mounted on a rigid molded, plastic board, patient transportation stretcher similar to a spinal board.
The equipment will be attached to a premounted step at the foot end of the spinal board. The equipment is to be secured, so as to be compliant with the national ambulance code. The step is to give adequate clearance to accommodate the patient's feet.
The harness system on the spinal board is to be designed so as to allow vertical winching of the board while carrying the patient and equipment the entire assembly is to be airworthy. The weight of the entire assembly is to not exceed 25 Kg though below 20 kg would be preferable.