Pre-Hospital Trauma Data Collection and Mining

Traumatic injury is a major public health and military problem. However, there is a major lack of physiological information about what happens to trauma casualties during both pre-hospital (field) management and in- hospital resuscitation. The ability to continuously collect, store and retrieve medical data from patients that are transported via helicopter, fixed wing or ambulance from the scene of the trauma event to end point of care is an essential link in the data collection process, one that currently does not exist. Our solution will include two main activities, building the data collection and analysis system and executing the initial data collection and data analysis. Such an approach will support the capture and analysis of trauma casualty data, which will give insight into the development of military triage algorithms and decision support systems.