TY - JOUR
T1 - The advanced health and disaster aid network
T2 - A light-weight wireless medical system for tiage
AU - Gao, Tia
AU - Massey, Tammara
AU - Selavo, Leo
AU - Crawford, David
AU - Chen, Bor Rong
AU - Lorincz, Konrad
AU - Shnayder, Victor
AU - Hauenstein, Logan
AU - Dabiri, Foad
AU - Jeng, Jing
AU - Chanmugam, Arjun
AU - White, David
AU - Sarrafzadeh, Majid
AU - Welsh, Matt
PY - 2007/9/1
Y1 - 2007/9/1
N2 - Advances in semiconductor technology have resulted in the creation of miniature medical embedded systems that can wirelessly monitor the vital signs of patients. These lightweight medical systems can aid providers in large disasters who become overwhelmed with the large number of patients, limited resources, and insufficient information. In a mass casualty incident, small embedded medical systems facilitate patient care, resource allocation, and real-time communication in the Advanced Health and Disaster Aid Network (AID-N). We present the design of electronic triage tags on lightweight, embedded systems with limited memory and computational power. These electronic triage tags use noninvasive, biomedical sensors (pulse oximeter, electrocardiogram, and blood pressure cuff) to continuously monitor the vital signs of a patient and deliver pertinent information to first responders. This electronic triage system facilitates the seamless collection and dissemination of data from the incident site to key members of the distributed emergency response community. The real-time collection of data through a mesh network in a mass casualty drill was shown to approximately triple the number of times patients that were triaged compared with the traditional paper triage system.
AB - Advances in semiconductor technology have resulted in the creation of miniature medical embedded systems that can wirelessly monitor the vital signs of patients. These lightweight medical systems can aid providers in large disasters who become overwhelmed with the large number of patients, limited resources, and insufficient information. In a mass casualty incident, small embedded medical systems facilitate patient care, resource allocation, and real-time communication in the Advanced Health and Disaster Aid Network (AID-N). We present the design of electronic triage tags on lightweight, embedded systems with limited memory and computational power. These electronic triage tags use noninvasive, biomedical sensors (pulse oximeter, electrocardiogram, and blood pressure cuff) to continuously monitor the vital signs of a patient and deliver pertinent information to first responders. This electronic triage system facilitates the seamless collection and dissemination of data from the incident site to key members of the distributed emergency response community. The real-time collection of data through a mesh network in a mass casualty drill was shown to approximately triple the number of times patients that were triaged compared with the traditional paper triage system.
KW - Biomedical monitoring
KW - Emergency services
KW - Human factors
KW - Multisensor systems
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U2 - 10.1109/TBCAS.2007.910901
DO - 10.1109/TBCAS.2007.910901
M3 - Article
C2 - 23852414
AN - SCOPUS:39549117996
VL - 1
SP - 203
EP - 216
JO - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
JF - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
SN - 1932-4545
IS - 3
ER -