How multi-agent systems suport acute stroke emergency treatment

BEATRIZ LÓPEZ; SILVANA ACIAR; BIANCA INOCENTI; ISABEL CUEVAS

Edingourgh, Scotland

Workshop; IJCAI Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care; 2005

Stroke is the third cause of mortality and the first cause of disability among people in western countries. A large percentage of the people who survive it live with serious physical and psychological disabilities and require permanent assistance in their daily activities. When detected, there is a limited amount of time in which treatment measures are effective.In addition, the thrombolytic treatment with rt-PA, which has shown good results, requiresnew extra- and intra-hospital protocols that the health-care community should be aware of. In this paper we present a multi-agent system, MASICTUS, with the aim of giving support in thediagnosis of acute stroke while coordinating ambulance services and expert neurologists to assist the patient on time. In particular, we propose the use of an auction mechanism based on trust in ambulance coordination. Moreover, the system is designed to exhibit reactive behavior when dealing with incidences occurring before the ambulance’s arrival