Design of a Cervical Collar Device to Facilitate and Accelerate Implementation of First Aid

Frequently there are disasters all over the world—fires, earthquakes, or even some unexpected shocking catastrophes. Hence people injured, or even died. Lifesaving actions begin with the initiation of the chain of survival. With every minute that passes without medical action being taken, the probab...

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Published in:Journal of medical systems 2010-08, Vol.34 (4), p.573-578
Main Authors: Işık, Hakan, Saraçoğlu, Esra, Harmanci, Hüseyin, Güler, İnan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cervical Vertebrae - injuries
Computer-Aided Design
Equipment Design - methods
First aid
First Aid - instrumentation
Health Informatics
Health Sciences
Heart attacks
Humans
Medical equipment
Medical technology
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
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Summary:Frequently there are disasters all over the world—fires, earthquakes, or even some unexpected shocking catastrophes. Hence people injured, or even died. Lifesaving actions begin with the initiation of the chain of survival. With every minute that passes without medical action being taken, the probability of being able to save the patients life decreases by ten percent. After 10 min there is normally no chance of resuscitation being successful. First aid is emergency treatment given before regular medical aid can be obtained. And it is a concept of first hands-on measures performed in a medical emergency by laypersons. The major aim of this study is to develop an easy—feasible cervical collar, for facilitating and accelerating implementation of first aid especially in case of collective injuries. The developed device is different from the cervical collars which are used to treat the neck pain. In the present study, the heartbeat is obtained by detecting pulse with the stethoscope that is a part of the developed device and fixed on the carorid artery. The obtained heartbeat signal has been processed by the electronic control circuit and the used LED has given light according to the patient’s life signal. Although there are some disadvantages of the developed system, the precautions for these cases have been taken and the system has been tried to design in order to operate sensibly.
ISSN:0148-5598
1573-689X
DOI:10.1007/s10916-009-9270-0