• Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.256-263
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• 2018

Objective We conducted a study to validate the effectiveness of the Korean criteria for trauma team activation (TTA) and compared its results with a two-tiered system. Methods This observational study was based on data from the Korean Trauma Data Bank. Within the study period, 1,628 trauma patients visited our emergency department, and 739 satisfied the criteria for TTA. The rates of overtriage and undertriage in the Korean one-tiered system were compared with the two-tiered system recommended by the American College of Surgery-Committee on Trauma. Results Most of the patient's physiologic factors reflected trauma severity levels, but anatomical factors and mechanism of injury did not show consistent results. In addition, while the rate of overtriage (64.4%) was above the recommended range according to the Korean criteria, the rate of undertriage (4.0%) was within the recommended range. In the simulated two-tiered system, the rate of overtriage was reduced by 5.5%, while undertriage was increased by 1.8% compared to the Korean activation system. Conclusion The Korean criteria for TTA showed higher rates of overtriage and similar undertriage rates compared to the simulated two-tier system. Modification of the current criteria to a twotier system with special considerations would be more effective for providing optimum patient care and medical resource utilization.

• 대한임상독성학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.92-107
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• 2023

Purpose: This study investigated the characteristics and treatment outcomes of patients who visited the emergency department due to intoxication and analyzed the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on their visits. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted using data from the National Emergency Department Information System (NEDIS) on patients who visited the emergency department due to intoxication between January 2014 and December 2020. In total, 277,791 patients were included in the study, and their demographic and clinical data were analyzed. A model was created from 2014 to 2019 and applied to 2020 (i.e., during the COVID-19 pandemic) to conduct a time series analysis distinguishing between unexpected accidents and suicide/self-harm among patients who visited the emergency department. Results: The most common reason for visiting the emergency department was unintentional accidents (48.5%), followed by self-harm/suicide attempts (43.8%). Unexpected accident patients and self-harm/suicide patients showed statistically significant differences in terms of sex, age group, hospitalization rate, and mortality rate. The time series analysis showed a decrease in patients with unexpected accidents during the COVID-19 pandemic, but no change in patients with suicide/self-harm. Conclusion: Depending on the intentionality of the intoxication, significant differences were found in the age group, the substance of intoxication, and the mortality rate. Therefore, future analyses of patients with intoxication should be stratified according to intentionality. In addition, the time series analysis of intentional self-harm/suicide did not show a decrease in 2010 in the number of patients, whereas a decrease was found for unintentional accidents.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제48권10호
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• pp.43-52
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 스마트 헬스케어 서비스를 위한 정책 기반 응급 생체 정보 구조를 제시한다. 제안된 서비스 구조를 통해 의료진이 원격지 환자의 응급 생체데이터를 빠르고 정확하게 모니터링 할 수 있다. 제안된 시스템은 생체 데이터 수집 및 전송 기능을 가진 IEEE 11073 표준 기반 에이전트와 매니저, IEEE 11073과 HL7 간 변환 기능 및 정책 기반의 자동 진단 기능을 가진 EMS (Emergency Management Server), HL7 표준 기반의 HL7 의료 시스템으로 크게 3 부분으로 구성한다. 마지막으로, 제안된 시스템을 구현함으로써 스마트 헬스케어 서비스에서 생체 데이터의 수집 및 응급 데이터 관리가 가능함을 보였다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.122-126
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• 2019

These-days technology related to IoT (Internet of Thing) is widely used and there are many types of smart system based IoT like smart health, smart building and so on. In smart health system, it is possible to check someone's health by analyzing data from wearable IoT device like smart watch. Smart building system aims to collect data from sensor such as humidity, temperature, human counter like that and control the building for energy efficiency, security, safety and so forth. Furthermore, smart city system can comprise several smart systems like smart building, smart health, smart mobility, smart energy and etc. In this paper, we propose multimedia IoT based intelligent emergency alarm system for smart city. In existing IoT based smart system, it communicates lightweight data like text data. In the past, due to network's limitations lightweight IoT protocol was proposed for communicating data between things but now network technology develops, problem which is to communicate heavy data is solving. The proposed system obtains video from IP cameras/CCTVs, analyses the video by exploiting AI algorithm for detecting emergencies and prevents them which cause damage or death. If emergency is detected, the proposed system sends warning message that emergency may occur to people or agencies. We built prototype of the intelligent emergency alarm system based on MQTT and assured that the system detected dangerous situation and sent alarm messages. From the test results, it is expected that the system can prevent damages of people, nature and save human life from emergency.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제52권5호
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• pp.311-321
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• 2003

In an emergency telemedicine system such as the High-quality Multimedia based Real-time Emergency Telemedicine(HMRET) service, it is very important to examine the status of the patient continuously using the multimedia data including the biological signals(ECG, BP, Respiration, $SpO_2)$ of the patient. In order to transmit these data real time through the communication means which have the limited transmission capacity, it is also necessary to compress the biological data besides other multimedia data. For this purpose, we investigate and compare the ECG compression techniques in the time domain and in the wavelet transform domain, and present an effective lossless compression method of the biological signals using PEG Huffman table for an emergency telemedicine system. And, for the HMRET service, we developed the lossless compression and reconstruction program or the biological signals in MSVC++ 6.0 using DPCM method and JPEG Huffman table, and tested in an internet environment.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.122-128
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• 2022

Minimization of human casualties in disaster situations is of paramount importance. In particular, if a marine disaster occurs, it can be directly connected to human casualties, so prompt action is needed. In the event of a marine disaster, the route and location of movement should be identified and life tubes should be used to float on the water. This paper designs and proposes an emergency IoT notification system that can quickly rescue drowning people. The maritime emergency IoT notification system consists of four main types. First, an emergency IoT device that detects the expansion of the life tube and delivers location and situation information to the emergency IoT notification server. Second, an emergency IoT web server that manages emergency information and provides notification. Third, a database server that stores and manages emergency IoT notification information. And finally, an emergency notification app that can receive and respond to emergency notification information. The emergency IoT device consists of a TPMS(Tube Pressure Monitoring System) device that checks the pressure value of the TPMS in real time and sends it to the IoT device, and an IoT device that sends the rescuer's voice information and emergency information to the emergency IoT server. Emergency information is delivered using the MQTT(Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) protocol, and voice information is delivered to the IoT server as HTTP FormData.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.189-197
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• 2004

The fate of a emergency patient is decided upon the extent of first aid in one hour after accident. Suitable diagnosis and treatment can raise the possibility of patient's life and reduce the recuperation time. We surveys papers which were The Korean Society Of Sports Medicine(1993-2004 yeas 405papers)and The Korean Society Of Emergency Medicine (1990-2004 yeas 797 papers). This paper got the following results through analyses of problems in emergency medical service system and of injures from sports. First, portable X-RAY equipment is needed to apply it to emergency. Second, it should have small and light structure compared with old equipments and have high voltage generator unit for X-RAY using inverter. Third, it should be able to send the shot data that is digital detector type without film to doctors in emergency center.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.67-79
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• 2019

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors affecting the utilization of emergency medical services and characteristics of emergency medical services according to age group among elderly individuals. Methods: This study conducted t-test and linear regression analysis on data of 1,960,575 participants to achieve the objective. Results: Analysis of the factors affecting the use of emergency medical services showed statistically significant correlation in all age groups. As the age of elderly people increased, the use of emergency medical service increased. Conclusions: Emergency medical policies are needed, such as coordinators with expert knowledge of medical and health administration and specialist emergency room operations that can provide specialized medical service for older patients.

• 대한임상독성학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2004

Backgrounds: Deaths from pesticides poisoning has increased annually, but no studies have been reported. Especially paraquat is suspected to be a major material in pesticide poisoning deaths. In Korea, simple epidemiology of pesticides poisoning is not well known. So, there is no effective method to prevent pesticides poisoning. We tried to investigate the present status of pesticides poisoning with data from Korea National Statistical Office and suggest an effective counterplan. Methods: We analysed death cause data derived from Korean Statistical association, deaths causes being pesticides poisoning in the year 2002. Also, we investigated data from internet, mainly from Korea National Statistical Office home page. Results: Total 2,875 persons died after pesticides poisoning in 2002 year. Average age is 54.2 year, standard deviation being 17.7 year. Many victims (about $41\%$) died during the herbicides' non-necessary period (JanuaryMarch, October-December) Conclusion: Herbicides sale should be restricted only during herbicides' necessary period, and so called a pesticides safety supervisor system shall effectively prevent herbicides poisoning.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.1267-1276
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• 2008

허혈성 심장 질환자가 급성 심근경색으로 병원에 도착하여 경피적 관상동맥 중재술을 받는데 까지 걸리는 시간(door-to-balloon time)은 환자의 사망률에 매우 큰 영향을 미친다. 본 연구에서는 기존에 병원에서 사용하고 있는 응급서비스시스템을 개선하고자 3단계의 시간 중 보호자에게 연락과 보호자가 병원에 도착할 때까지의 시간(door-to-data time), 이후 시술동의서에 서명할 때까지의 시간(data-to-decision time)을 줄이고자 하였다. 새로운 e-응급서비스시스템은 급성심근경색을 가진 응급시술환자에 대한 병원 내 응급서비스시스템 내의 데이터베이스를 구축하였고 허혈성 심장 질환자로서 부산대학교병원에 주기적으로 내원하는 환자에게 건강카드(health card)를 발급하였다. 아울러 사전시술동의서는 공인된 전자화 문서로 보관하도록 하였다. 새로운 전자화 시스템은 복잡한 진료 및 시술 절차를 획기적으로 감소시킬 수 있다. 그러므로 응급환자에 대한 인명구조를 용이하게 하고 사망률을 감소시키는 효과를 기대할 수 있다. 뿐만 아니라, 기존 시스템의 복잡한 절차로 인한 의료진과 환자의 고충을 동시에 해결하는 효과도 기대할 수 있다.