The Wearable Smart Blanket System Model for Monitoring the Vital Signs of Patients in Ambulance (Preprint)
UNSTRUCTURED Objective: The timely and managed intervention reduces the consequences due to disease and sudden death of patients in emergency conditions. Monitoring and caring for the patients in emergency conditions requires the rapid and correct decisions to maintain their lives. The present study aimed at modeling the wearable smart blanket system for monitoring the patients in the emergency conditions of ambulance. Method: The present study was applied and descriptive-developmental. Firstly, the requirements and features of wearable smart blanket system were elicited and secondly a smart blanket system was modeled by using the UML charts and elicited requirements. Finally, the designed architecture was evaluated by using ARID scenario-based method. Results: The functional requirements of wearable smart blanket system with its data elements and physical-structural features of this system as well as non-functional requirements were elicited. Based on the requirements and data elements elicited from the questionnaire, class diagram, activity, use case diagram, sequence, deployment, and component were drawn. Then, the ARID scenario-based evaluation method was used to show that the designed architecture can provide the expected scenarios from the proposed system by using the UML and the relationships between components, systems, and users from the structural and behavioral perspectives. Conclusion: wearable smart blanket system collects the data related to medical signals by the sensors installed on the blanket and such data are processed by the smart system. The obtained data about the conditions of patient help the physician in ambulance to intervene timely and rapidly without any delay.