System Development

Emergency Medical Service Support System (ESS)

For the reduction of traffic accidents and causalities, it is crucial to identify where and under what kind of circumstances traffic accidents tend to occur and what type of injuries tend to be caused. However, information about traffic accidents such as place, time, and situation is not currently recorded in Lao P.D.R. Also, the information about causalities has been kept on paper and never been analyzed. Given this problematic situation, we will develop and apply Emergency Medical Service Support System (ESS) which enables to collect accident data, share the data with hospitals, and accumulate the data for analysis.

Rescue crews enter information of injured people and transmit the data while taking them to the hospital by using an application on smartphones. Using this application is easy and handy for crews who are used to using smartphones on a daily basis. And, medical professionals at hospital get to prepare for receiving the patient based on the information sent from the ambulance.

We plan to reflect the analysis of data set to policies regarding the safety promotion including identification of poor road structures, reinforcement of traffic legislation and education.

1. Computerization of Accidents and Patients' Data and Data Analysis

As rescue crews enter information on the smartphones' application along their tasks from the ambulance's dispatch to arrival at hospital, the detailed information and time at each stage are recorded. The computerized data set makes it easy to analyze the problems involved in the accidents. The database and its analysis will be fundamental information as we try contributing to the reduction of traffic accidents and improvement of EMS.

2.　Transmission of Patients' Data to Hospitals Prior to Patients' Arrival

As rescue crews send the patients' data using the smartphone's application from the ambulance, the data is sent and shown on a monitor placed at the hospital. Medical professionals check patients' information, then prepare for their arrival accordingly. This system help saving patients' lives with limited resources as it enables medical professionals to prepare themselves based on incoming patients' conditions especially when many patients are carried to the hospital at the same time.

On the display, positions of ambulances heading to the hospital and incoming patients' information are shown. For the patients' information, body parts of injury and seriousness are indicated, and a red label is shown if the patients' condition is severe.

3. Position Management of Ambulances

Locations of ambulances can be monitored by utilizing GPS function of smartphones set on the ambulance. We aim to have a mechanism where dispatchers dispatch ambulances based on the location information and dispatch the ambulance which is located the closest from the accident place and ready for the dispatch. In the future, we plan to open the Command and Control Center (CCC) at Mittaphab Hospital to manage operation of all ambulances in Vientiane Capital in a speedy and effective manner.