Ambulance

1. Guardian Angel IPv6 Wireless Initiative Ambulance UKT-Hospital Acute Consultation Live- Vital Sign- Streams LIVE-Telemanagement Live- Video- Streams Ambulance Experts in the Guardian-Angel center in the hospital give advice to the remote team Ambulance crew with problems caring for a patient in an emergency Ambulance-to-HospitalMobile IPv6 Multi Access Network Medical background Errors are a leading cause of death in patients. In emergency situations help is needed immediately when necessary. Often there is a lack of permanently available experienced medical staff. The Guardian-Angel-System closes this gap in the medical field. Conception Whenever a medical team cannot solve a medical emergency problem, they are able to contact the Guardian-Angel experts. Therefor they use a one-button activation of all necessary systems and transmissions and wear wireless headsets for undisturbed communication. Perspective When the medical, legal and technical problems of the Guardian-Angel-System are solved, it could be established as a routine back-up and emergency care system in many fields of modern medicine: intensive care units, operating rooms, emergency departments and of course mobile in ambulance cars. The Guardian Angel medical applications require an ability to seamlessly roam between different types of access networks – whatever is the best available in a certain location. “UKT-Hospital” GPRS / UMTS DNS Ericsson Router (HA) SGSN GGSN GPRS / UMTS WLAN Internet Ambulance WLAN WLAN WLAN CN 6bone 6bone edge router Access technology independent multiaccess Universität TübingenDept. of AnesthesiologyPatient Safety and Simulationmarcus.rall@med.uni-tuebingen.de Düsseldorf Access router Ericsson Research has implemented this functionality at the IP/network layer within a prototype Multiaccess Mobile IPv6 stack. Medical applications within a Guardian Angel Ambulance can always stay best-connected with the hospital. Tübingen 6bone edge router LAN “docking station” IPv6 Other partner connections via 6bone IPv4 IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel Access router Universität StuttgartRechenzentrum ‘RUS’Communication Systemschrist@rus.uni-stuttgart.de An interface management system is provided for controlling the operation of Multiaccess. Users can control the placement of IP traffic in different interfaces based on application requirements and information on the accesses. The presented Multiaccess network is transparent to applications and access technologies and does not require any additional network nodes. It is based on a Linux Mobile IPv6 stack developed by GO – an Ericsson co-funded research project in Helsinki University of Technology. TheHome Agent functionality is provided on a commercial Ericsson high performance dual stack Router. OY L M ERICSSON AB NOMADICLAB PL 58 02131 ESPOO FINLAND nomadiclab@ericsson.fi In the Multiaccess network IP traffic can be dynamically transferred from one network interface to another. A video stream on the patient can be transferred from GPRS to WLAN, to achieve higher bandwidth and picture quality. In the future different IP flows can also use separate interfaces simultaneously. For example, sufficient reliability might not be available in a WLAN network, therefore vital data transmissions could simultaneously use a GPRS or UMTS interface. ERICSSON TELEBIT A/S Skanderborgvej 232 8260 Viby J DENMARK ted-research@ted.ericsson.dk RUS Communication Systems Universität Stuttgart IST 2000 - 25153