The advanced health and disaster aid network: A light-weight wireless medical system for tiage

Tia Gao; Tammara Massey; Leo Selavo; David Crawford; Bor Rong Chen; Konrad Lorincz; Victor Shnayder; Logan Hauenstein; Foad Dabiri; Jing Jeng; Arjun Chanmugam; David White; Majid Sarrafzadeh; Matt Welsh

doi:10.1109/TBCAS.2007.910901

The advanced health and disaster aid network: A light-weight wireless medical system for tiage

Tia Gao, Tammara Massey, Leo Selavo, David Crawford, Bor Rong Chen, Konrad Lorincz, Victor Shnayder, Logan Hauenstein, Foad Dabiri, Jing Jeng, Arjun Chanmugam, David White, Majid Sarrafzadeh, Matt Welsh

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	203-216
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
Volume	1
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TBCAS.2007.910901
State	Published - Sep 2007

Keywords

Biomedical monitoring
Emergency services
Human factors
Multisensor systems

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biomedical Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Gao, T., Massey, T., Selavo, L., Crawford, D., Chen, B. R., Lorincz, K., Shnayder, V., Hauenstein, L., Dabiri, F., Jeng, J., Chanmugam, A., White, D., Sarrafzadeh, M., & Welsh, M. (2007). The advanced health and disaster aid network: A light-weight wireless medical system for tiage. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 1(3), 203-216. https://doi.org/10.1109/TBCAS.2007.910901

Gao, T, Massey, T, Selavo, L, Crawford, D, Chen, BR, Lorincz, K, Shnayder, V, Hauenstein, L, Dabiri, F, Jeng, J, Chanmugam, A, White, D, Sarrafzadeh, M & Welsh, M 2007, 'The advanced health and disaster aid network: A light-weight wireless medical system for tiage', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 203-216. https://doi.org/10.1109/TBCAS.2007.910901

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