Ambulatory data aggregation and reduction for transmission over limited bandwidth network

Abstract

There is a growing interest in linking the ambulance to hospital emergency room for transferring patients' vital signs' data to the hospital while the patients are in transit. If the ambulance is linked to the emergency room, physicians can monitor vital signs and issue instructions to the paramedics for stabilizing the patient. When a disaster strikes, scores of people have to be transferred to the hospital in ambulances. During an emergency situation, the number of patients in critical condition is overwhelming. We propose a scheme to transmit vital signs' data to the hospital in reduced and packed format via limited bandwidth wireless network. This scheme will help physicians in the hospital to monitor several patients who are in transit to the hospital. The effectiveness of data reduction techniques has been discussed for the purpose of transmission of data to the hospital on limited bandwidth wireless network.