IoT based E-Critical Care Unit for Patients In-Transit

Quite often, we see patients dying due to non-availability of doctor on site or because the person on site is not authorized to administer any drug without the recommendation of a qualified doctor. Therefore, to get a doctor's prescription, either the doctor is called telephonically or the readings of the vital sign monitor, installed (if any) in ambulances, are described to the doctor by the person attending on the patient. The drawback of telephonic communication is that the doctor cannot actually see the monitor and he has to rely on the attendant for the information and further for administering the drug. In such cases, the patient may suffer due to communication errors between the doctor and the attendant. As such, there is a need for smart and secure technology which can enable quick and easy virtual access of doctor to the patient in real time. The present paper reports on the development of a fully integrated system, i.e. Smart and Portable Intensive Care Unit (SPICU) that would provide a REAL TIME ACCESS of the vital parameters of a patient to the concerned doctor at a remote location, in an easy and convenient manner i.e. on his Smart Phone. In turn, the doctor can easily monitor Vital Signs of the patient in real time and inject life-saving medicines at required time duration from a remote location. In this paper the working model of a low-cost multi-syringe infusion pump is described. The reported infusion pump would enable a doctor to deliver drug(s) from remote location. The obtained results pave a way towards the development of a low cost portable drug delivery system that can be installed in ambulances/ICU/CCU and to transfer the vital parameters of the patient to the doctor.