title: What is happening to the patient during pre-hospital trauma care?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Program in Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Defouw
authors.forename: Colin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mackenzie
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Handley
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Seebode
authors.forename: Phil
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Floccare
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xiao
mesh_terms: D034201:Computers, Handheld; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012984:Software; D014947:Wounds and Injuries