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Kiyoko Nagami1, Isao Nakajima, Hiroshi Juzoji
1Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan. pp07028@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Abstract:
At present, mobile phones are not a useful tool for medical control during a disaster. We have estimated the number of satellite channels that would be needed for telemedicine in a major disaster using the Erlang B equation. This indicated that 29 satellite channels would be sufficient for the operation of a telemedicine system for hospital-to-hospital communications during a major disaster in Japan. Governments at local and national levels in Japan, as well as private organizations, require an independent satellite telecommunication infrastructure to deal with the aftermath of disasters.
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