In-Situ Mobile Application for the Triage of Pedestrians (SENTINEL)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
In-Situ Mobile Application for the Triage of Pedestrians in Vehicle Collision (SENTINEL).
IRAS ID
343910
Contact name
Christophe Bastien
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Coventry University
Duration of Study in the UK
3 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
Vehicle to pedestrian collisions have devastating consequences on people’s lives, often causing death or serious and life changing injuries. The SENTINEL project focuses on maximising the chance of survival of pedestrian collision patients by the roadside, and more particularly in helping the emergency services (ES) to direct these patients to the best care centre, i.e. the right hospital. Unfortunately, current best practice for clinicians at the roadside is a simple pocket card checklist to aid triage.
SENTINEL aims to revolutionise the triage of pedestrian patients by developing an AI based mobile app for the early identification of pedestrians’ brain injuries, enabling faster and more accurate medical interventions. This will not only improve patient outcomes and save lives, but also advance the application of AI beyond traditional fields, generating new methodologies and insights applicable in various domains. SENTINEL is aligned with current regional and international efforts to reduce road fatalities and will deliver impactful solutions at a critical juncture in road safety and healthcare innovation. The development of an AI-based mobile application for emergency responders will optimise triage, improving outcomes and response times.SENTINEL will initially create the AI mobile app based on existing pedestrian collision data provided by the Department for Transport. This mobile app accuracy will then be tested against real pedestrian cases, which have occurred near Coventry, West Midlands, UK, and where patients have been transported to the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW). The success of SENTINEL depends on accessing the medical records of these pedestrian patients, to ensure that the brain injury predictions computed by the mobile AI app are correct and usable by the clinicians at the roadside.
This ethical application relates to accessing medical records of adult pedestrian patients (16 years old and above) having suffered a vehicle collision.
REC name
Wales REC 1
REC reference
25/WA/0101
Date of REC Opinion
12 Jun 2025
REC opinion
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