5G Pediatric Emergencies in Maritime Environments aims to improve, thanks to 5G technology, care in the first minutes of a maritime health emergency, a key time to save lives. In the pilot, a child wears a subcutaneous paediatric device that alerts the Emergency Medical System (EMS) when it detects an anomaly in his or her heart rhythms.
Partners: Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (HSJD), Vodafone, Port de Barcelona and Society for Rescue and Maritime Safety (SASEMAR).
Collaborators: Philips y Biotronik. It also has the support of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Sector: Health and healthcare
Use cases: The pilot test recreated the situation of a child who suffers a cardiac emergency on a boat near the Port of Barcelona. The child is wearing a subcutaneous pediatric device, which alerts the EMS when it detects an anomaly in his or her heart rhythms. Thanks to this warning, the EMS can activate the protocol for these cases.
The alert also reaches the cardiology service of the Hospital San Joan de Déu (HSJD), which calls the family to find out the situation for themselves. It examines the device remotely and, verifying that there is indeed a danger, asks the EMS to activate the relevant resources to assist the patient.
Once a highly complex pediatric ambulance from the EMS arrives at the port, the medical team moves to the swallow, the ship where the child is, with a SASEMAR (Society for Rescue and Maritime Safety) boat.
The child is then transferred to the SASEMAR boat, which returns to the Moll de la Fusta in the Port of Barcelona. On arrival on land, the child is treated in the pediatric ambulance and transported to hospital.
Description of the technology:
To provide assistance, the EMS contacts the HSJD via a high-resolution tablet with 5G, transmitting data in real time and stabilising the patient. Subsequently, thanks to the ultra-portable Philips Lumify ultrasound machine and a 5G mobile phone used as a router, an echocardiography is performed to evaluate the patient’s state of health more in detail.
Main solution or advance offered by the technology:
The 5G technology and the devices used in this pilot, such as the high-resolution tablet, the ultra-portable Philips Lumify ultrasound scanner or the 5G mobile phone, make possible to arrive in time to attend the first minutes of a pediatric emergency and connect with the hospital to stabilise the patient even in a maritime environment.
Status: Finished
