2000 Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 209-214
After the Hanshin Awaji Earthquake, many manuals preparing for natural disasters or major accidents have been made. However, almost these manuals are text-based, and have no systematic construction. So it is very hard to retrieve appropriate information for medical personnel on the real urgent scene. As a solution to this issue, we developed an electronic guideline system as a medical disaster-response (MDR) system. We extracted action rules from the disaster response manual of Kobe university hospital, and implemented these rules to our system. Our system is composed as a client-server system and designed to combine any department for disaster-response through computer networking. The server system has the rule database and distributes the action guideline to each terminal. Each terminal has a multi user interface so that medical personnel can obtain proper information in response with their function.
