Electronic triage system for continuously monitoring casualties at disaster scenes

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 547-558

  Sakanushi, Keishi ^a   Hieda, Takuji ^b   Shiraishi, Taichiro ^a   Ode, Yasumasa ^c   Takeuchi, Yoshinori ^a   Imai, Masaharu ^a   Higashino, Teruo ^a   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY URAYASU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER SCENES; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; TRIAGE TAGS; VITAL SIGN;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84884549720     PISSN: 18685137     EISSN: 18685145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-012-0130-2     Document Type: Article

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