TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - The advanced health and disaster aid network: a light-weight wireless medical system for triage
JO  - IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems
A1  - Tia Gao, 
A1  - Massey, Tammara
A1  - Selavo, Leo
A1  - Crawford, David
A1  - Bor-Rong Chen, 
A1  - Lorincz, Konrad
A1  - Shnayder, Victor
A1  - Hauenstein, Logan
A1  - Dabiri, Foad
A1  - Jeng, James
A1  - Chanmugam, Arjun
A1  - White, David
A1  - Sarrafzadeh, Majid
A1  - Welsh, Matt
SP  - 203
EP  - 216
VL  - 1
IS  - 3
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1932-4545
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TBCAS.2007.910901
ID  - ref1
ER  -