Triage with RFID Tags

Author

Inoue, Sozo ; Sonoda, Akihiko ; Oka, Ken´ichiro ; Fujisaki, Shin Ichiro

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 29 2006-Dec. 1 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

In this paper, a triage system using RFID and its experiment are described. Triage is a procedure used by emergency personnel to ration limited medical resources to massive injured people, in which triage tags, are used to 1: classify and transport the injured effectively, and 2: obtain and publish the state and the scale of the casualty incident. We applied RFID tags and mobile devices with a wireless network to speed up and increase the accuracy of these applications, verified through an experiment assuming massive injured people, and demonstrated that it even accelerates the transportation of the injured people

Keywords

emergency services; medical computing; mobile communication; radiofrequency identification; RFID tags; emergency personnel; massive injured people; medical resources; mobile devices; triage tags; wireless network; Acceleration; Availability; Fires; Personnel; Pervasive computing; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Throughput; Transportation; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Health Conference and Workshops, 2006

Conference_Location

Innsbruck

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1085-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1086-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361694

Filename

4205185