Prototype device for monitoring vital signs during transportation of accident patients, preliminary results

Abstract

Approximately 1.3 million people die on the road and between 20 and 50 million suffer non-fatal road traffic injuries worldwide. Natural or man-made disasters claim the lives of thousands of human beings in these cases rescue teams intervene to safeguard the lives of the people affected. The objective is to build a prototype device for monitoring vital signs in the transport of patients in disaster or accident areas, performing initial tests on people in good physical condition to verify its operation. The agile methodology ICONIX process for Embedded Systems allows the modeling and construction of the hardware and software, thus obtaining a device that captures vital signs with sensors and a web application for synchronous monitoring of the current physical state of a person. The IoT applied in the field of rescue enables closer and safer monitoring from the place where a trauma patient is located to the monitoring center over long distances.

Keywords

• accidents
• disaster areas
• monitoring
• patients
• vital signs