PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS AND VEHICLE PARAMETERS MONITORING SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCY PATIENT TRANSPORTATION

Dhiraj Sunehra, Thirupathi Samudrala, K. Satyanarayana, M. Malini

Abstract: The developments in semiconductor electronics and wireless communication have enabled development of new systems for monitoring patient’s health parameters in emergency and alerting the doctors by sending the monitored data from patient’s location. It takes certain amount of time, to begin the treatment of the patient after reaching the hospital, in view of conducting various diagnostic tests to know patient’s health status. This time is crucial in the golden hour. If patient’s physiological parameters record is sent from emergency vehicle to the monitoring station using wireless technology, while transporting the patient to the hospital, this data would help in prior diagnosis of patient’s health condition and making necessary arrangements for initiating the treatment. In this paper, we have reported a prototype of emergency patient monitoring system that monitors vital physiological parameters and vehicle parameters such as pulse rate, oxygen saturation level, body temperature, location and speed of vehicle and fuel level.

Keywords: Pulse rate, Oxygen saturation, Body temperature, GPS, GSM, Microcontroller

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0419007