A Framework for the Interconnection of Controller Area Network (Can) based Critical Care Units

摘要

Patient monitoring helps increasing the mortality by timely notification of exceeding vital signs. By usingthe vital sign data the critical care staff can make necessary life savinginterventions. This requires theunderlying network to be very robust so that timely and error free information flow can be guaranteed.Moreover there is a need for a cost effective and robustnetwork technology for continuous and real-timevital signs monitoring in resource constraint settings in developing countries. In this paper we proposed asystem of hospitals with interconnected intensive care units. Each intensive care unit employsControllerArea Network(CAN)as underlying technology for networking of bedside units. The data of these bedsideunits can be communicated with other hospital using higher level protocols such as Ethernet. This allowthe hospital staff to share the health information of the patients with the specialized staff in anotherhospital to provide better cure to the patient and consequently can increase the mortality