JP3170577U - Aircraft patient information communication device - Google Patents

Abstract

An aircraft patient information communication apparatus capable of performing emergency treatment of a transported patient while transmitting patient information to a transport destination hospital or the like more easily and obtaining an appropriate treatment instruction is provided. An electrocardiogram (71) and a network camera (74) installed in the aircraft, a server for converting these output signals into data signals for a cellular phone communication network, and a data signal provided in the aircraft via the cellular phone communication network. And an antenna 81 for communicating with the communication destination. [Selection] Figure 2

Description

  The present invention relates to an aircraft patient information communication apparatus.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a remote monitoring medical notification system in which a patient has a wireless electrocardiogram monitoring device, and a mobile phone is connected to the monitoring device to transmit electrocardiogram data to a medical institution when an abnormality occurs. . On the other hand, emergency medical personnel board a helicopter and quickly go to the site, and while using the equipment installed in the helicopter to perform necessary treatment for the patient, the patient is promptly transported to a medical institution or other location. Emergency medical helicopters, or doctor helicopters, are becoming popular.

JP2000-60807

  However, in a conventional doctor helicopter, patient information such as an electrocardiogram or an image of the patient's condition can be transmitted more easily to the destination hospital, etc. There is a growing demand for treatment.

  Therefore, the present invention solves such a problem, and it is possible to carry out emergency treatment of a transported patient while transmitting patient information to a transport destination hospital etc. more easily and obtaining an appropriate treatment instruction. An object is to provide an information communication device.

  In order to achieve the above object, in the first device, the patient information collecting device (71, 74) installed in the aircraft and the output signal of the patient information collecting device (71, 74) are used for a cellular phone communication network. An interface circuit (75) for converting to a data signal, and an antenna (81) provided in the machine body for communicating with a communication destination by the data signal via the mobile phone communication network.

  In the first device, the interface circuit converts the output signal of the patient information collecting apparatus installed in the aircraft into a data signal for the mobile phone communication network, and the antenna uses the data signal via the mobile phone communication network. Since communication is performed with the communication destination, it is possible to transmit patient information to a communication destination such as a transfer destination hospital more easily and obtain an appropriate treatment instruction to perform emergency treatment of the transfer patient.

  The second device comprises a communication destination designating means (73) provided in the aircraft for designating an information communication destination, and the antenna (81) is located between the communication destination designated by the communication destination designating means (73). It communicates with.

  In the second device, since the communication destination such as the transport destination hospital can be designated by the communication destination designation means, it is possible to more smoothly transmit the patient information and obtain an appropriate treatment instruction.

  In the third device, the patient information collecting device includes an electrocardiograph (71) and a camera (74) for photographing the inside of the apparatus.

  In the third device, the condition of the transported patient can be accurately notified by the output signal of the electrocardiograph and the photographed image of the camera.

  The reference numerals in the parentheses indicate the correspondence with specific means described in the embodiments described later.

  As described above, according to the aircraft patient information communication device of the present invention, patient information can be more easily transmitted to a transport destination hospital or the like, and an emergency treatment of a transport patient can be performed while obtaining an appropriate treatment instruction.

It is a top view of a helicopter showing one embodiment of the present invention. It is a side view of a helicopter. It is a perspective view of the cockpit where an electrocardiograph and a portable information terminal are installed. It is a perspective view of the cockpit ceiling part in which the network camera is installed. It is a perspective view of the luggage compartment which installed the server. It is a perspective view of the body part which installed the antenna. It is an electrical system diagram of a patient information communication apparatus.

  The embodiment described below is merely an example, and various design improvements made by those skilled in the art without departing from the gist of the present invention are also included in the scope of the present invention.

  1 and 2 both show a helicopter as an aircraft equipped with a patient information communication device. FIG. 1 is a plan view of the helicopter with the main rotor omitted, and FIG. 2 is a side view of the helicopter with the entrance doors omitted. Indicates. In FIG. 1, the front half of the fuselage (the right half of FIG. 1) is wide and forms a cockpit 1 with a pair of left and right windshields 11 at the front end. A tail boom 2 extends rearward from the cockpit 1, a tail rotor 3 is provided on the rear end side surface, and vertical stabilizers 41, 42 extending in the vertical direction are projected. Horizontal stabilizers 51 and 52 are projected in the horizontal direction from both side surfaces of the tail boom 2.

  Landing gears 6 protrude obliquely downward from the left and right positions on the bottom of the aircraft body of the cockpit 1. Each of the left and right landing gears 6 includes a skid 61 that contacts the ground and support arms 62 and 63 that are provided at the front and rear positions of the skid 61 and support the aircraft.

  In the cockpit 1, an electrocardiograph 71 constituting a patient information collecting device is provided on a base 72 (FIG. 3) adjacent to the cockpit 12. In this embodiment, the electrocardiograph 71 is a multifunctional electrocardiograph with an analysis function, and the patient's electrocardiogram data, heart rate, SpO2, on a stretcher (not shown) placed on the rear seat 13 (FIGS. 1 and 2), Patient information consisting of vital signs such as blood pressure is acquired.

  A portable information terminal 73 serving as a communication destination designation unit is provided on the back of the cockpit 12. The portable information terminal 73 starts and stops the entire patient information communication apparatus, controls connection to a transport destination hospital or information transmission destination, displays a connection state with a hospital or the like, or monitors a transmission image. is there.

  A network camera 74 constituting a patient information collecting device is provided on the ceiling of the cockpit 12 (FIG. 4), and the patient and the surroundings are photographed.

  In the luggage compartment behind the cockpit 12, a server 75 (FIG. 5) as an interface circuit and a DC-DC converter 76 for supplying power to the server 75 are disposed. The server 75 converts the patient information output from the electrocardiograph 71 and the image information of the network camera 74 into a data signal for a cellular phone communication network and encrypts it to control data transmission and the like.

  In FIG. 2, an antenna 81 is provided on the lower surface of the machine so that it can communicate with a mobile phone communication network. Details of the installation portion of the antenna 81 are shown in FIG. The antenna 81 is attached to the lower surface of one end of the long support member 82. The support member 82 has a central upper surface coupled to the airframe so as to be tiltable in the longitudinal direction, and can be tilt-adjusted so that the antenna 81 has an appropriate posture. A wireless antenna 83 is provided at the other end of the support member 82.

  FIG. 7 shows an electrical system diagram of the patient information communication apparatus. In the figure, when the power switch 771 of the instrument panel controller 77 (see FIG. 1) provided in the cockpit 1 is turned on, 24V power is supplied to the DC-DC converter 76, and the 12V power reduced by the converter 76 is supplied. The electrocardiograph 71, the network camera 74, and the server 75 are supplied. The electrocardiograph 71 and the network camera 74 are directly connected to the server 75, and patient information 71 a output from the electrocardiograph 71 and image information 74 a output from the network camera 74 are input to the server 75.

  The portable information terminal 73 is connected to the server 75 via an attached LAN adapter 731 and receives a signal for starting and stopping the entire patient information communication apparatus, and a connection control signal to the destination hospital or information transmission destination. Output to the server 75. Further, the portable information terminal 73 receives a signal indicating a connection state with a hospital or the like from the server 75 and displays it, or displays the image information fed back from the server 75 and can monitor it. .

  The server 75 converts the patient information 71a output from the electrocardiograph 71 and the image information 74a of the network camera 74 into a data signal for a cellular phone communication network, encrypts it, and is connected to this via an interface card 751. The antenna 81 transmits and receives data signals to and from the mobile phone communication network.

  In this way, patient information of the transport patient can be transmitted to the transport hospital on the ground more easily, and emergency treatment of the transport patient in the aircraft can be performed while obtaining appropriate treatment instructions from the transport hospital etc. Can do.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Cockpit, 71 ... Electrocardiograph (patient information collection device), 73 ... Portable information terminal (communication destination designation means), 74 ... Network camera (patient information collection device) 75 ... Server (interface circuit), 81 ... Antenna .

Claims (3)

A patient information collecting device installed in the aircraft, an interface circuit for converting an output signal of the patient information collecting device into a data signal for a mobile phone communication network, and the data provided in the aircraft via the mobile phone communication network An aircraft patient information communication device including an antenna that communicates with a communication destination using a signal. 2. The aircraft-use aircraft according to claim 1, further comprising a communication destination designating unit that is provided in an aircraft and designates an information communication destination, and wherein the antenna communicates with a communication destination designated by the communication destination designating unit. Patient information communication device. The aircraft patient information communication device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the patient information collection device includes an electrocardiograph and a camera for photographing the inside of the aircraft.

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