Remote Critical Care Robot for Privacy-Safe Emergency Response
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing critical care systems face limitations in providing effective remote medical assistance without the presence of a trained professional, privacy concerns during treatment, and inefficiencies in transporting patients to medical facilities, particularly due to the size and location constraints of existing devices like AEDs and robots.
Innovation Solution
A critical care system incorporating a remotely controllable critical care robot equipped with a photographing device, critical care tool storage, and end effectors, allowing for remote operation by multiple users, and a server that processes medical and environmental information to determine transportation means and navigate the robot to the patient's location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a mobile terminal is used to detect and transmit biometric information, then the system can provide critical care assistance, but the system requires trained personnel to be present on-site to perform effective treatment
Solution Approach 1:
A robot acts as an intermediary between the remote operator and the patient. The robot includes a robot arm with an operation portion that can perform physical treatments, a notification portion to communicate with the patient, and a photographing device to capture images for transmission to the remote operator. This allows effective critical care treatment to be performed remotely without requiring trained personnel to be physically present on-site.
2Ease of operation
If remote critical care is implemented, then the need for on-site trained personnel is reduced, but privacy protection during treatment becomes compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The robot serves as a privacy-protecting intermediary during remote treatment. The notification portion displays images captured by the photographing device, allowing the patient to see what the remote operator sees, thereby maintaining privacy while enabling remote operation. The robot arm performs physical treatments without requiring the remote operator to be physically present, further protecting patient privacy.
3Reliability
If emergency vehicles are dispatched for all critical care cases, then patient transport capability is ensured, but unnecessary dispatches increase response time and resource consumption
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of always dispatching emergency vehicles for all critical care cases, the system first attempts to provide critical care assistance through remote operation. The robot performs treatments and the remote operator provides guidance. Only when the patient's condition deteriorates or remote treatment becomes insufficient does the system escalate to emergency vehicle dispatch. This partial action approach reduces unnecessary dispatches while ensuring transport capability when truly needed.
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure provides a critical care system, a critical care system control method, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording a program. A critical care system includes: a photographing device which is capable of remotely controlling at least one of a position and a direction; a critical care tool storage part which stores a critical care tool; a critical care robot which includes at least one end effector that allows for remote control; a terminal with which at least one operator remotely operates the critical care robot; and a server which is capable of acquiring medical condition information and environmental information acquired by the critical care robot, transmitting the acquired medical condition information and environmental information to the terminal, receiving operation information for the critical care robot from the terminal, and controlling the critical care robot based on the received operation information.