Proposal of an Architecture and Implementation of a Triage Support System
At the time of disaster, medical resources are limited. To save the injured person as many as possible, triage is important. Recently, the concept of triage in emergency medical care at the time of disaster has attracted widely in Japan. In order to perfo
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Abstract. At the time of disaster, medical resources are limited. To save the injured person as many as possible, triage is important. Recently, the concept of triage in emergency medical care at the time of disaster has attracted widely in Japan. In order to perform emergency lifesaving activities at an real disaster spot quickly and accurately, it is essential to do triage training frequently. Many systems have been developed to support medical activities at real spot and triage training. However, current systems are designed either for training only or for usage in real situations only. In this study, we propose an architecture and implementation of a triage support system. We designed the system so that the users can select different modes, and implemented a prototype system. The evaluation shows that our system can be used in different situations and the operation of the system can be done without any problems. Keywords: Triage
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· Architecture · Tablet · HMD · Beacon · Training
Introduction
When a large-scale disaster occurs, medical resources such as personnel and equipment become limited. In such situations, triage becomes important. By performing triage, an act of deciding the priority of treating patients by severity of their condition, efficient use of the resources can be achieved. After triage, the patient needs to be transported to a hospital quickly and receive appropriate treatment there. Many systems have been developed to assist medical activities in emergencies. Some examples are: a system in which patients’ vital signs can be monitored in real time and a system which visualizes the patients’ location. There are also systems that support triage training, since training played a key role in acquiring the skills and knowledge necessary to perform triage. However, current systems are designed either for training only or for usage in real situations only. Therefore, users cannot get used to the system during training, and may lose time in figuring out how to use the system in actual disasters. Moreover, how to input information into the system and look at the already inputted information is restricted in current systems, so the usability is not high. In this paper, we propose an architecture and implementation of a triage system. To solve the issues stated above, we designed the system so that the users c Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 T. Yoshino et al. (Eds.): CollabTech 2016, CCIS 647, pp. 246–261, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-2618-8 20
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can select different modes, such as “Table-top Training” and “Disaster”, according to the situation. These modes can be created easily using the base system, which includes the minimum necessary functions to perform triage. In addition, we implemented a prototype system according to the architecture using a tablet terminal and monocular HMD. After conducting an evaluation experiment, we found that our system can be used in different situations and the operation of the s
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