ER Assistant

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ER Admission Process

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Here are the 5 steps in an ER:​

• Rapid Medical Evaluation

  • Triage process with a registered nurse​

  • Screening checkup with licensed medical provider

    • Used to determine your level of care that you require​

    • Used to see if you're needed to go get checked before others

• Registration​​

  • Obtain your consent to treat you ​​

  • Obtain more information about you

    • Needed to order a diagnostics test ​​

      • ​​ The physician will know what the best treatment option is for you​​

• Treatment​​​

  • Treated with simple treatments by a nurse or a technician​

    • Take blood or urine samples​

    • Send you to a X-ray or any other imaging​​

• Re-evaluation​​

  • Patient's condition is re-evaluated​ by a physician ​ ​ ​ ​​​

    • More info is gathered about the patient​

  • A physician would determine if you should be admitted into a hospital or sent home​

• Discharge​

  • Patients would receive instructions to help cure your illness or to take medication if needed

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Blood Pressure Measurement

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A blood pressure cuff works by stopping the bronchial artery from functioning by filling up the cuff with air. As the cuff is slowly deflated, the heart starts pumping blood into your arteries hard and makes loud noises that can be heard and measured with a stethoscope. 

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The stethoscope can help to measure your blood pressure because of a thin layer of plastic on the bell (the part that touches the patient) that is called a diaphragm. The diaphragm will vibrate as the blood is pumping. The vibration will go up a rubber tube that will lead into ear pieces. Then, the doctor can hear the pulse and measure the systolic and diastolic readings.

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A sphygmomanometer, a tool for measuring blood pressure, depends on the concept that when the blood pressure cuff containing a rubber air bladder is wrapped around an arm and it is inflated, the pressure that is in the air bladder is equal to the number that the meter points at.

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The systolic reading is measuring the pressure in your arteries when your heart beats. The diastolic reading is measuring the pressure in your arteries between the breaks of the heart beats. An average systolic and diastolic reading would be approximately 120/80.

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One problem with present blood pressure technology is that if a patient is feeling stress, the blood pressure measurement wouldn’t be accurate. When a patient is experiencing stress, their body releases a flow of hormones that causes the heart to pump blood faster. So that will cause the patient to have a steep rise in blood pressure which will go away once the stress disappears. Our solution is to have an AI draw out a simulated human on a screen that acts like a therapist to help calm the patient down. This would help lower their blood pressure and allow for a more accurate measurement.