Using the cooperative robots concept in emergency and catastrophes medicine

Abstract

The goal of this paper consists in a presentation of a telemedicine system architecture applicable in emergency and disaster medicine achieved through a benchmarking between cooperative robotics technique and the mobile intervention units reaction in case of human emergency or disaster appearance. The paper presents an innovative method of assistance, gridiron and guiding patients to the most adequate medical unit for high performance treatment in concordance with medico-surgical affections. The method is based on the interblend prehospital emergency information with the image acquisition through ultrasonographic FAST examination, from the accident scene. The information is transmitted through radio and/or GSM communications channels to a central server and further to emergency departments in order to prepare the patient reception. The purpose of radio and/or GSM communications is to optimize the time for patient accommodation at the final therapy units. The system assures the tele-assistance of the medical ambulance personnel by adjacent domains specialists, too (medical imagistic or surgery). The system architecture is structured on three hierarchical levels: local level (at the accident area), emergency reception level (the control level) and the emergency department level