Hisashi Uchiyama

A study of operational liability of the medical rescue robot under disaster

In the Great Hanshin earthquake and Chu-etsu earthquake, many victims were crushed by rubble, and died by “crush syndrome”. Even the simple rescue method that removes the rubble, it could be a cause of death. As the only countermeasure, DMAT (=Disaster Medical Assistance Team) creeps into fallen houses, and treat dialysis or drip infusion. But these methods are very dangerous for victims and DMAT to treat amid the aftershocks. We think that Rescue Robot technique is just suitable solution for the dilemma under various and dangerous situations. We already built a prototype model of the Rescue Robot to prevent crush syndrome, so we present an outline of this Rescue Robot. We simulate the operation of this robot, and investigated the resulting liability to the parties of that robot. And indicate that problem and solution of existing disaster-related laws in Japan.

Study and Development of the Rescue Robot to Accommodate Victims under Earthquake Disasters

At the Great Hanshin earthquake in Japan, many victims were crushed by rubble and died by “crush syndrome”. Even the simple rescue method that removes the rubble, it could be a cause of death. As the only countermeasure, DMAT (=Disaster Medical Assistance Team) creeps into fallen houses, and treat dialysis or drip infusion. But these methods are very dangerous for victims and DMAT to treat amid the aftershocks. We think that Rescue Robot technique is just suitable solution for the dilemma under various and dangerous situations. The Rescue Robot has the dual tiered crawler. The Rescue Robot goes through under rubble open, and the victims are held in the container inside of the Robot body. We already built a prototype model, so we present an outline of our rescue robot. And we will show you the reformed design of the Rescue Robot, and the new mechanism to prevent Crush Syndrome.

A basic study for highly endurable clinical ME system under disasters

We had bitter experiences of natural disaster (Chu-Etsu Earthquakes, Indonesian Ocean Tsunami, Sanjo Flood, heavy snow etc) in 2004. Fortunately there were 46 victims in Niigata against 6400 victims in Hanshin-Awaji Earthquakes in 1996, thanks of the technical improvements in social safety. But the medical care for the suffers met several difficulties in the isolated towns with ruined lifelines, especially on the hardware and software of medical equipments. In this study we are trying to improve robustness of medical equipments and systems against natural disasters through the research of safety specks and materials for the emergency medicine in the shelters.

A New Diagnostic Method for Alzheimer's Disease Using Pupillary Light Reflex

We has developed a lightweight glass-shaped measurement apparatus composed of two CCDs to capture eye images and four white LEDs for light stimulus to diagnose Alzheimers disease (AD). The AD patients showed significantly smaller miotic rate and longer miotic time than the normal elderly controls for miotic reflex in our clinical experiment.