Real-time emergency telemedicine system: prototype design and functional evaluation.
In this paper, an emergency telemedicine system was designed for the transmission of real-time multimedia for remote consultation, including radiological images, patient records, video-conferencing, full-quality video, ECG, BP, respiration, temperature, SpO(2), systolic and diastolic pressures and heart rate. The standardized, modular, software-based design architecture, without resorting to external hardware compression boards, enables the low-cost implementation of the telemedicine system, using the unified, systematic and compact integration of multimedia on general personal computers. Experimental tests on local networks analyze the technical aspects of designed systems, and inter-hospital experiments demonstrate its clinical usefulness.
Yoo
Sun K
SK
Department of Medical Engineering, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134, Shinchon-dong, Seodaemoon-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea. sunkyoo@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
Kim
Kwang Min
KM
Jung
Seok Myung
SM
Kim
Nam Hyun
NH
Kim
Sun Ho
SH
Park
Jin Bae
JB
Park
In-Cheol
IC
Oh
Jin Ho
JH
Kim
Seung-Ho
SH
D003199:Computer Systems; D003201:Computers; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D019114:Remote Consultation / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration*