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. 2015 May 22;15(5):11993-2021.
doi: 10.3390/s150511993.

Survey of WBSNs for Pre-Hospital Assistance: Trends to Maximize the Network Lifetime and Video Transmission Techniques

Enrique Gonzalez  1 , Raul Peña  2 , Cesar Vargas-Rosales  3 , Alfonso Avila  4 , David Perez-Diaz de Cerio  5
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Survey of WBSNs for Pre-Hospital Assistance: Trends to Maximize the Network Lifetime and Video Transmission Techniques

Enrique Gonzalez et al. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

This survey aims to encourage the multidisciplinary communities to join forces for innovation in the mobile health monitoring area. Specifically, multidisciplinary innovations in medical emergency scenarios can have a significant impact on the effectiveness and quality of the procedures and practices in the delivery of medical care. Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) are a promising technology capable of improving the existing practices in condition assessment and care delivery for a patient in a medical emergency. This technology can also facilitate the early interventions of a specialist physician during the pre-hospital period. WBSNs make possible these early interventions by establishing remote communication links with video/audio support and by providing medical information such as vital signs, electrocardiograms, etc. in real time. This survey focuses on relevant issues needed to understand how to setup a WBSN for medical emergencies. These issues are: monitoring vital signs and video transmission, energy efficient protocols, scheduling, optimization and energy consumption on a WBSN.

Keywords: emergency mobile healthcare; energy consumption; optimization system for adaptive model; wireless body sensor network.

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Main causes of death in Mexico, 2006–2011. Source: Death registry INEGI, 2011.
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Wireless body sensor network communicating through a mobile phone.
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Wireless Monitoring Platform for Emergency Situations. (A) Intra-WBSN communication; (B) Inter-WBSN communication; (C) Beyond-WBSN communication.
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