Title :
Electronic Triage System: Casualties Monitoring System in the Disaster Scene
Author :
Sakanushi, Keishi ; Hieda, Takuji ; Shiraishi, Taichiro ; Ode, Yasumasa ; Takeuchi, Yoshinori ; Imai, Masaharu ; Higashino, Teruo ; Tanaka, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan
Abstract :
Many persons are injured or killed in the disaster scene. Paper triage tags have been widely used in the disaster scene. The most serious problem of the paper triage tag is not to show the current priority. To save casualties´ lives, this paper proposes an electronic triage system which consists of an electronic triage tag and an electronic triage server. The electronic triage tag always monitors vital signs of the casualty and transmits them to the electronic triage server. Experimental results show that the proposed electronic triage system can save more lives than the paper triage tag.
Keywords :
biomedical engineering; disasters; casualties monitoring system; disaster scene; electronic triage system; paper triage tags; Color; Hospitals; Light emitting diodes; Monitoring; Pulse measurements; Servers; Wireless communication; disaster medical; electronic triage system; triage; triage tag; vital sign;
Conference_Titel :
P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1448-1
DOI :
10.1109/3PGCIC.2011.58