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Good day,
Recently a classmate of mine sent an email
describing our university project (supporting remote medicine). Given your
basic acquaintance with this I thought I might ask for your help on my
topic.
I am looking at the project from a very scenario
driven manner. I am setting up a scene where two drovers are on their way
home (yet still half a day away from everywhere) and due to fatigue and rugged
terrain one of the men falls off his horse and lands on his chest/abdomen and
ruptures his spleen.
What I would like to know is firstly given this
scenario can this kind of injuring and secondly what level of information would
you require to diagnose this. Assume you could get a basic video feed
(perhaps using modified satellite phone) operated by his fellow drover, basic
vital signs over same or different channel.
My aim is find out what the barest level of
information required is and also the desired level of information you would
ultimately like, then see what technologies exist or are in the near future that
could be used to support the gathering and delivery of this information in
remote settings.
Ideas range from first aid kit with GPS positioning
so you can accurately gauge the patient's location and fly to the most
convenient point. Possible video as mentioned before. Small vital
signs measuring kit that can be sent over the phone or some other means (HF,
VHF?). Anything else you could dream up?
Your thoughts on this would be most
appreciated.
Stuart
Fraser. |