TraumaStation: A portable telemedicine station

Author

Rizou, Despoina ; Sachpazidis, Ilias ; Salvatore, Luca ; Sakas, Georgios

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1254

Lastpage

1257

Abstract

TraumaStation is a portable medical device which covers the mobility of the medical doctors as well as integrates the diversity of telemedicine devices. Many portable telemedicine devices has been developed the last years in order to help patients in remote areas or in emergency situations. The medical TraumaStation is a light portable tele-medical first-aid device, which provides the physicians with an ultrasound, electrocardiogram, blood pressure, oxygen meter apparatus all in a suitcase. In addition, the portable device is equipped with all available telecommunication gateways (e.g. GSM, UMTS, ISDN, DSL, Satellite) providing a great communication convenience to the physicians utilizing XMMP instant messaging protocols and real time video conference.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; biomedical ultrasonics; electrocardiography; first aid; telemedicine; DSL; GSM; ISDN; TraumaStation; UMTS; XMMP instant messaging protocols; blood pressure; electrocardiogram; light portable first-aid device; oxygen meter apparatus; portable telemedical device; portable telemedicine station; real time video conference; satellite; telecommunication gateways; ultrasound; DICOM; Instant messages; Portable; SCP-ECG; Telemedicine; Biomedical Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Emergency Medical Services; Humans; Remote Consultation; Satellite Communications; Software; Telecommunications; Telemedicine; Videoconferencing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3296-7

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333908

Filename

5333908