The integration of vital signs in healthcare has witnessed a steady rise, promising health professionals to assist in their daily tasks to improve patient treatment. In life-threatening situations, like rescue operations, crucial decisions need to be made in the shortest possible amount of time to ensure that excellent treatment is provided during life-saving measurements. The integration of vital signs in the treatment holds the potential to improve time utilization for rescuers in such critical situations. They furthermore serve to support health professionals during the treatment with useful information and suggestions. To achieve such a goal, the KIRETT project serves to provide treatment recommendations and situation detection, combined on a wrist-worn wearable for rescue operations.This paper aims to present the significant role of vital signs in the improvement of decision-making during rescue operations and show their impact on health professionals and patients in need.

Inherent human limitations in teaming environments coupled with complex planning problems spur the integration of intelligent decision support (IDS) systems for human-agent planning. However, prior research in human-agent planning has been limited to dyadic interaction between a single human and a single planning agent. In this paper, we highlight an emerging research area of IDS for human team planning, i.e. environments where the agent works with a team of human planners to enhance the quality of their plans and the ease of making them. We review prior works in human-agent planning and identify research challenges for an agent participating in human team planning.