RFID應用在緊急醫療救護之研究

Abstract

緊急醫療救護的目的在確保緊急傷病患之生命及健康，也就是期望當有人發生緊急事故時，都能即時的獲得必要之醫療救護；而目前所重視之緊急醫療救護之重點在到院前與急診室之救護，一般住院病患與需長期照護之病患之救助，就較少被提及。欲使病患在發生緊急事故時，能及時獲得醫療救護，就必頇解決緊急事故之探知、緊急訊息之傳遞、與醫療人員之派遣等問題。 本研究以RFID技術為基礎，利用其長距離與持續自動偵測的特性，掌握在室內活動之醫護人員與病患的位置；並結合可穿著移動之生理訊號偵測衣技術，隨時監控病患之生理狀況。藉由RFID定位之訊息，電腦系統得以派遣離緊急事故病患最近的醫護人員到場救治；並無線行動裝置的結合使用，確保醫護人員得以隨時獲得病患之緊急訊息，不受固定裝置之限制。 透過RFID技術、生理訊號偵測衣技術、無線行動裝置三者的整合運用，本研究分析設計出一套緊急醫療救護系統架構，並基於此系統架構上，開發雛形系統，驗證此一系統架構之可行性。透過本研究所發展的緊急醫療救護系統，如論病患何時何地發生緊急事故，醫護人員都能在最短的時間內到達發生緊急事故的病患身旁，減少延誤醫治的狀況。

The objective of emergency medical care is to ensure the life and health of emergency patients. When any emergency occurs to anyone, he/she can receive necessary medical care. However, currently, the focuses of emergency medical care are the pre-hospital emergency medical services, the medical care for general in-patient are seldom mentioned. In order to let patent obtain in-time medical care when emergency occurs, problems such as the detecting of the emergency accident, the transfer of emergency message and the assignment of medical care personnel must be solved. This study is based on RFID technology to detect the locations of medical care personnel and patient who move around indoors; meanwhile, wearable and mobile physiological signal detection suite technique is associated to monitor the physiological status of the patient at any time. Through the positioning message of RFID, the computer system can assign medical care personnel that is nearest to the patient at the emergency accident to perform medical care. Furthermore, through the use of wireless mobile device, it can be ensure that medical care personnel can obtain any emergency message of the patient at any time. Through integration of three techniques such as RFID technique, physiological signal detection suite technique and wireless mobile device, a set of emergency medical care system structure is designed in this study. Meanwhile, based on this system structure, a prototype system is developed to verify the feasibility of this system structure. Through the emergency medical care system developed in this study, no matter when and where the emergency accident occurs, medical care personnel can reach the patient at the emergency accident site in the shortest time to reduce the possibility of delayed medical care.