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ABSTRACT
Telemonitoring during the golden hour of patient transportation helps to improve medical care. Presently there are different physiological data acquisition and transmission systems using cellular network and radio communication links. Location monitoring systems and video transmission systems are also commercially available. The emergency patient transportation systems uniquely require transmission of data pertaining to the patient, vehicle, time of the call, physiological signals (like ECG, blood pressure, a body temperature, and blood oxygen saturation), location information, a snap shot of the patient, and voice. These requirements are presently met by using separate communication systems for voice, physiological data, and location that result in a lot of inconvenience to the technicians, maintenance related issues, in addition to being expensive. Tele-monitoring refers to the transmission of symptom scores, physiological data including heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and weight directly to care providers either via automated electronic means or by web-based or phone-based data entry. Jacob and Jeffery (2018). Immediate medical attention to critically ill patients and accident victims followed by transportation to a well-equipped medical facility within the golden hour saves many lives. Numbers of road accidents in Africa are the highest across the world. According to the National Transportation Planning and Research Center (NTPRC) the number of road accidents for 1000 vehicles in Africa is about 35 while the figure is between 4 to 10 in developed countries. About 105,000 accidents take place every year.
