@article {163,
	title = {Transmission of Patient Vital Signs using Wireless Body Area Networks},
	journal = {Mobile Networks and Applications (Springer)},
	year = {2010},
	month = {July},
	abstract = {Triage is the process of prioritizing patients
based on the severity of their condition when resources
are insufficient. Hospitals today are equipped with
more and more electronic medical devices. This results
in possibly high level of electromagnetic interference
that may lead to the failure of medical monitoring
devices. Moreover, a patient is usually moved between
different hospital settings during triage. Accurate and
quick prioritization of patient vital signs under such
environment is crucial for making efficient and realtime
decisions. In this article, a novel in-network solution
to prioritize the transmission of patient vital
signs using wireless body area networks is proposed;
the solution relies on a distributed priority scheduling
strategy based on the current patient condition and on
the vital sign end-to-end delay/reliability requirement.
The proposed solution was implemented in TinyOS and
its performance was tested in a real scenario.},
	author = {B. Chen and D Pompili}
}
