How to monitor somebody at Base Camp from afar by an Anesthesiologist

Anesthesiologists (anaesthetists in the UK) are doctors that spend much of their day looking at monitors whether in the operating room (theater) or intensive care unit, in order to make decisions about their patients.

Doctors such as these are trained to monitor, interpret, and then make a decision for their patients very quickly.

So it should be no surprise that the WiCis-Sports system was developed in conjunction with doctors from this specialty. What do the WiCis-Sports solutions share in common with what goes on in an opertaing room while you are having surgery? The answer is, just about everything!

Data that your doctor sees in the operating room is being read by sensors placed on the patient and displayed in real time for him to interpret it.

What does an anesthesiologist do with this information? He keeps you alive - that is what these doctors really do. How do they do it? By measuring certain vital signs.

Take a look at a closeup of the monitor on the top left.

Let's review what is being followed in this monitor during a real surgical procedure:

1. Electrocardiogram waveform (patient is in sinus rhythm - normal)

2. Heart Rate (55 - the lower your heart rate, the lower your oxygen consumption)

3. End Tidal CO2 (36 - the EtCO2 is a measurement of how much CO2 the patient is breathing out.)

4. Pulse Oximeter waveform (normal, rhythmic)

5. Pulse Oximeter O2 saturation (97, meaning your hemoglobin is 97% saturated with O2)

6. Pulse Oximeter pulse rate (55 - matches your EKG rate)

7. Blood Pressure (107/64 with a mean of 81)

8. Other values such as FiO2 (in this case 47% meaning he is getting more than twice as much as room air which is 21%)

So it is with this kind of data that an anesthesiologist keeps you alive for, in the above, case, a plating of a distal radial fracture.

How would an anesthesiologist follow you if you are at 18,000 feet, at Base Camp, when you have fallen ill? No differently if he could! Because with this data he can give you the best chance you could ever have of surviving. And with the WiCis-Sports Base Camp solution, your local doctor will also be able to consult with any other doctor in the world about your health status - in real time!

Take a look at this now: (A dashboard from the WiCis-Sports Base Camp solution)

Look familiar?

Note what the demo feed from our WiCis-Sports Base Camp Solution can follow at your BC.

1. EKG

2. EKG rate

3. Pulse oximetry wave

4. Pulse oximeter rate

5. Pulse oximeter saturation

6. 2 Temperatures

7. Blood pressure

For all of the above, one can set alarm limits.

But more importantly, and here is the big difference with a medical monitor - all data is being streamed to the internet, all data is being saved, and all data can be replayed at any time!

In short - with the WiCis-Sports Basecamp Solution, you can be cared for no differently than if you are in a modern operating room in Silicon Valley in the United States in 2016.

Check our our WiFi monitor that streams all of its data to our server:

It streams, it's wifi, it's compact, it runs on batteries, and we've tested it extensively. And it does EKG, 2 temps, SpO2, and blood pressure. It has it's own screen, but all the data is also streamed once it connects to a satellite hotspot, to our server, and then to you.

Why cut corners when you don't need to anymore? Want to see a live demo? Click here  user: demo password: demo  Select Thuraya Base Camp - to the right of the mWidget button, to select the basecamp dashboard... (By the way, the demo data stream you are watching, is coming from the UK - if you have a fast internet connection, you should be seeing a delay of less than one second.)

In our next article we'll discuss how to track somebody who is on the mountain.

WiCis-Sports - share your body's vitals and return safely.