The advanced health and disaster aid network: A light-weight wireless medical system for tiage

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 203-216

  Gao, Tia ^a   Massey, Tammara ^b   Selavo, Leo ^c   Crawford, David ^d   Chen, Bor Rong ^e   Lorincz, Konrad ^e   Shnayder, Victor ^e   Hauenstein, Logan ^a   Dabiri, Foad ^b   Jeng, Jing ^f   Chanmugam, Arjun ^g   White, David ^a   Sarrafzadeh, Majid ^b   Welsh, Matt ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Washington Hospital Burn Center   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical monitoring; Emergency services; Human factors; Multisensor systems

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; DISASTERS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; PATIENT MONITORING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

DISASTER AID NETWORK; EMERGENCY SERVICES; WIRELESS MEDICAL SYSTEM;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 39549117996     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2007.910901     Document Type: Article

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