Total Intelligent Life-Saving System against Earthquake and 'Tsunami': Disaster Medical Engineering from Protection to Care in Catastrophe

摘要

Japan has suffered from earthquakes and Tsunami 4 times since 1995. The economical loss reached to 25 thousand billion Yen and the number of the victims was more than 26,000. In order to prepare the future catastrophe we have decided to recruit multidisciplinary regions of science and engineering and we have founded a research group "The society of disaster medical engineering" for life saving techniques under natural disasters in 2004. The research subjects are wide from the phase-0 (Protection) to the phase-3 (medical care) that include from emergency alarms to rescue robot as well as the active Tsunami protection systems. The phase-0 includes earthquake/Tsunami proof, safety box and disaster communication system. As the phase-1 we have composed universal alarming system as well as handy Braille communicator. Rescue Robot and other life saving systems are important instruments for the phase-2. Finally the phase-3 aims automatic support for the medical care in refuge shelters.