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Demonstration of SMART (Scalable Medical Alert Response Technology)

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: There are many challenges in providing adequate health care in a disaster situation. A disaster site typically has limited equipment, few caregivers and an excess of victims. Triage efforts are brief and it is difficult to continuously monitor the patients who cannot be treated immediately. The SMART system addresses these issues by wirelessly monitoring the vital signs and locations of otherwise unattended patients, tracking caregivers and equipment, and providing decision support in allocating caregivers and equipment in critical situations. The main components of this system are (1) patient monitoring, (2) caregiver notification, (3) networking, (4) a location system for both people and equipment and (5) decision support software. A diagram of the SMART system is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 SMART components. SDM: Streaming Data Manager; DSM: Decision Support Module; LSM: Logistics Support Manager.

Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)

Authors: Jason Waterman, Dorothy Curtis, Michel Goraczko, Eugene Shih, Pankaj Sarin, Esteban J. Pino, Lucila Ohno‐Machado, Robert A. Greenes, John V. Guttag, Thomas O. Stair

Institutions: MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W160726327

FWCI: 0.94

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Cited by: 15

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