TRIAGE TAG MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND SMARTPHONE FOR SAME, AND TRIAGE TAG MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20150031321A1
• Filed: 06/07/2012
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tokyo Electronic Systems Corporation
• Original Assignee: Tokyo Electronic Systems Corporation
• Inventors: Ito, Akira, Nakamori, Yasushi, Tanaka, Hideshige, Nakamaru, Tomoko, Kachi, Kyosuke, Homma, Yoshio
• Application Number:
  US14/233,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20150031321A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

An example of a triage tag management includes a triage tag attached to a wounded person, a smartphone that receives input of symptom data of the wounded person, determines a symptom level of the wounded person, and transmits data of the symptom level to the triage tag, and a wounded person information database that receives the symptom level data of the wounded person from the smartphone over a network and stores the symptom level data therein for each wounded person attached with the triage tag, the smartphone including a temporary storage section that temporarily stores the symptom level data of the wounded person when the symptom level data cannot be transmitted to the wounded person information database.

Claims

1. A triage tag management system comprising:

a triage tag attached to a wounded person;

a smartphone that receives input of symptom data of the wounded person, determines a symptom level of the wounded person, and transmits data of the symptom level to the triage tag; and

a wounded person information database that receives the symptom level data of the wounded person from the smartphone over a network and stores the symptom level data therein for each wounded person attached with the triage tag, the smartphone including a temporary storage section that temporarily stores the symptom level data of the wounded person when the symptom level data cannot be transmitted to the wounded person information database.

2. The triage tag management system according to claim 1, wherein

the smartphone includes a symptom determination section that receives input of symptoms of the wounded person based a predetermined determination method and determines the symptom level of the wounded person.

3. The triage tag management system according to claim 2, wherein

the predetermined determination method uses a START method, a PAT method, and a vital sign, inputs the symptoms of the wounded person in this order, and determines the symptom level of the wounded person.

4. The triage tag management system according to claim 3, wherein

the symptom determination section includes a START method control/determination section that determines the symptoms of the wounded person using input based on the START method, a PAT method control/determination section that determines the symptoms of the wounded person using input based on the PAT method, and a vital sign control/determination section that determines the symptoms of the wounded person using input based on the vital sign.

5. The triage tag management system according to claim 4, wherein

the triage tag includes an electrical or physical display section.

6. A smartphone for triage tag management system, comprising:

a tag transmission/reception section that receives input of symptom data of a wounded person, determines a symptom level of the wounded person, transmits data of the symptom level to a triage tag attached to the wounded person, and receives data from the triage tag;

a server transmission/transmission section that transmits, over a network, the symptom level data of the wounded person to a triage support server including a wounded person information database that stores the symptom data for each wounded person attached with the triage tag and receives data from the wounded person information database; and

a temporary storage section that temporarily stores the symptom level data of the wounded person when the symptom level data cannot be transmitted to the wounded person information database.

7. The smartphone for triage tag management system according to claim 6, further comprising a symptom determination section that receives input of symptoms of the wounded person based on a predetermined determination method and determines the symptom level of the wounded person.

8. The smartphone for triage tag management system according to claim 7, wherein

the predetermined determination method uses a START method, a PAT method, and a vital sign, inputs the symptoms of the wounded person in this order, and determines the symptom level of the wounded person.

9. The smartphone for triage tag management system according to claim 8, wherein

the symptom determination section includes a START method control/determination section that determines the symptoms of the wounded person using input based on the START method, a PAT method control/determination section that determines the symptoms of the wounded person using input based on the PAT method, and a vital sign control/determination section that determines the symptoms of the wounded person using input based on the vital sign.

10. A triage tag management method comprising:

inputting symptom data of a wounded person to a smartphone;

determining a symptom level based on the input symptom data of the wounded person and transmitting the symptom level data to a triage tag attached to the wounded person;

transmitting, over a network, the symptom level data of the wounded person from the smartphone to a wounded person information database that stores the symptom level data therein for each wounded person attached with the triage tag; and

temporarily storing the symptom level data of the wounded person in a temporary storage section of the smartphone when the symptom level data cannot be transmitted from the smartphone to the wounded person information database.

11. The triage tag management method according to claim 10, wherein

the smartphone receives input of symptoms of the wounded person based on a predetermined determination method and determines the symptom level of the wounded person.

12. The triage tag management method according to claim 11, wherein

the predetermined determination method uses a START method, a PAT method, and a vital sign, inputs the symptoms of the wounded person in this order, and determines the symptom level of the wounded person.

13. The triage tag management method according to claim 12, wherein

the symptom determination section sequentially determines the symptom level of the wounded person using input based on the START method, input based on the PAT method, and input based on the vital sign in this order.