Telemedicine for emergency care management using WebRTC

摘要

With the rapid advancement and development in the field of real time communications, telemedicine has reached great heights and had helped save millions of lives during emergency situations. The use of telemedicine is longstanding but its application in emergency care management is still in its developmental stage. Currently there are several emergency telemedicine systems available in the market that uses up-to-date vehicle electronics, latest telecommunications technology and specialized software. However these systems are highly sophisticated, bulky, and expensive and are employed by very few health centers. Thus these life saving services are not available to large portion of the population especially those living in the rural areas. The aim of this paper is to come up with a new idea where these Tele Emergency services can be implemented in a much efficient, economical and less sophisticated manner so that these services can be provided widely. Here we propose a new Emergency Telemedicine Application for emergency care management which uses WebRTC for real time communication. This system just requires a mobile device with internet connection with either chrome or Mozilla browser installed in it. The device is carried within the ambulance to conduct an initial assessment of the patient and later brought to the nearest health center where further treatment is carried under the assistance of specialists whose telepresence is provided by WebRTC enabled devices.