What is happening to the patient during pre-hospital trauma care?
We report a PDA based in-flight (pre-hospital) patient vital signs data recorder (VSDR) system which captures both numerical and continuous waveforms from a patient monitor in real-time. Nine pre-hospital Life-Saving-Intervention (LSI) event markers were configured for rapid real-time event documentation. A VSDR data set from first field encounter through hospital arrival could be wirelessly downloaded to a secure server and displayed on the VSDR-Viewer. Preliminary in-flight patient runs demonstrated the VSDR concept and future potential.
Hu
Peter
P
Program in Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA.
Defouw
Gregory
G
Mackenzie
Colin
C
Handley
Christopher
C
Seebode
Steven
S
Davies
Phil
P
Floccare
Douglas
D
Xiao
Yan
Y
D034201:Computers, Handheld; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012984:Software; D014947:Wounds and Injuries