TRAUMABASE: A Multimedia Database System for Combat Casualty Care Research andPlanning

摘要

The aim of the TRAUMABASE project was to assist the gathering, integration, anddissemination of data and information related to combat casualty care, by developing a computer-based, multimedia system for entry, storage, and retrieval of trauma data and information. TRAUMABASE tested and evaluated a number of emerging technologies for this application, selected and implemented a cost-effective software/hardware configuration and placed emphasis on the input of all alpha-numeric data collected and contained in the Wound Data and Munitions Effectiveness Team (WDMET) collection. The developed prototype system is capable of handling data and information in most forms appropriate to the study of combat trauma; and is sufficiently compact, rugged and practical to permit eventual acquisition and operation by different types of Army medical units engaged in casualty care planning, research and clinical quality assurance. Combat Casualty Care, Injury Database, Videodisc RA II, PO.