• DocumentCode
    2812823
  • Title

    A Proposal of Building an Early-Stage Diagnosis System of First-Aid through Wireless Internet

  • Author

    Tolentino, Randy S. ; Jung-Hwan Hwang ; Sun-Ho Kim ; Yong-Tae Kim ; Park, Gil-Cheol ; Dae-Joon Hwang

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Multimedia Eng., Hannam Univ., Daejeon
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    28-30 Aug. 2008
  • Firstpage
    70
  • Lastpage
    74
  • Abstract
    It is generally accepted that early and specialized pre-hospital patient treatment improves outcome in terms of mortality and morbidity, in emergency cases. The focus of this paper is to propose a telemedicine system for pre-hospital patient treatment. One of the primary emphases of the propose system is on the transmission of patient vital signs from the accident site or the moving ambulance to the consultation site, using Internet and wireless mobile network, at the hospital the medical experts evaluate the patient data, decides about the treatment protocol and provide directions to the medical staff on the accident site or to the ambulance´s, concerning on handling the patient until the arrival to the hospital. The propose system has a database including (1) patient medical record, (2) lists of disease, general procedure of diagnosis and prescription treatment, and (3) lists doctor´s with their corresponding specialties.
  • Keywords
    Internet; first aid; mobile computing; patient diagnosis; telemedicine; early-stage diagnosis system; first aid; prehospital patient treatment; telemedicine; wireless Internet; wireless mobile network; Accidents; Databases; Hospitals; IP networks; Internet; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical treatment; Proposals; Telemedicine; Wireless application protocol;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology, 2008. ICHIT '08. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Daejeon
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3328-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICHIT.2008.213
  • Filename
    4622803