title: Dynamic biosignal management and transmission during telemedicine incidents handled by Mobile Units over diverse network types.
abstract: Early and specialized pre-hospital patient treatment improves outcome in terms of mortality and morbidity, in emergency cases. This paper focuses on the design and implementation of a telemedicine system that supports diverse types of endpoints including moving transports (MT) (ambulances, ships, planes, etc.), handheld devices and fixed units, using diverse communication networks. Target of the above telemedicine system is the pre-hospital patient treatment. While vital sign transmission is prior to other services provided by the telemedicine system (videoconference, remote management, voice calls etc.), a predefined algorithm controls provision and quality of the other services. A distributed database system controlled by a central server, aims to manage patient attributes, exams and incidents handled by different Telemedicine Coordination Centers (TCC).
authors.affiliation: Wire Communication Laboratory, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, Panepistimioupoli - Rion, Greece. mandello@upatras.gr
authors.forename: George J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Mandellos
authors.forename: George V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Koutelakis
authors.forename: Theodor C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Panagiotakopoulos
authors.forename: Andreas M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Koukias
authors.forename: Mixalis N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Koukias
authors.forename: Dimitrios K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Lymberopoulos
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D044962:Data Compression; D004631:Emergency Medical Service Communication Systems; D004867:Equipment Design; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D008952:Mobile Health Units; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000145:classification / Q000295:instrumentation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014584:User-Computer Interface