“Disaster Relief and Emergency Medical Services (DREAMS): Digital EMS Yearly Project Overview and Status”
About: Review article of the DREAMS project which was developed by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The goals of the project were to create a virtual presence of a physican during the ambulance transportation to the hospital and to provide a system to assist EMS personell in situations as mass-casualities, disaster relief and so on. This was done with help of video conferencing.
URL: https://www.academia.edu/53375158/DREAMS_Disaster_Relief_and_Emergency_Medical_Services_and_Digital_EMS
Language: English
Publication date: 2001-10-22
Study performed in America.
“Interview: Roger Lee Heath’s LifeBot and Super Ambulances”
About: Article about the so called Super Ambulances that has been tested in Texas and are equipped with video cameras that can live stream from inside the ambulance to make it possible for doctors to assist with diagnosis support. This has helped in many ways: it has reduced the unnecessary transports to hospitals with ambulance, the paramedics can perform certain treatments in the ambulance with the support from a doctor and the video consultation gives information to the hospital before the patient arrives.
URL: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/10052/interview-roger-lee-heaths-lifebot-and-super-ambulances
Language: English
Publication date: 2011-01-26
Study performed in America.
“Super Ambulance Emergency Telemedicine Doctors and Paramedics”
About: Video coverage of the new so called Super Ambulances that has been tested in Texas, Florida and Colorado. The Super Ambulances enables video consultation with in-hospital doctors far away by placing video cameras in the ambulance and on the head of the paramedics. It was developed by the US Army, Texas A&M University and Houston Medschool for battlefield emergencies such as a hurricane. This was part of the DREAMS project.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kERGNiNHpH8
Language: English
Publication date: 2013-01-16
“VUB PreSSUB project – Alexis Valenzuela Espinoza, VUB”
About: Video where the PreSSUB project is presented which is a project where you want to bring the neurologist to the ambulance via video conferencing to start assessing stroke patients earlier and save time.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H6pGFEtD_A
Language: English
Publication date: 2013-11-19
Study performed in Belgium.
“Feasibility of AmbulanCe-Based Telemedicine (FACT) Study: Safety, Feasibility and Reliability of Third Generation In-Ambulance Telemedicine”
About: Research article about the clinical study NCT02119598. The aim of this prospective study was to investigate the safety, the technical feasibility and the reliability of in-ambulance telemedicine using a prototype third generation telemedicine system (PreSSUB III). Mainly focused on stroke patients.
URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0110043
Language: English
Publication date: 2014-10-24
Study performed in Belgium.
“PreSSUB II: The prehospital stroke study at the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel II”
About: A continuation of the pilot study PreSSUB where PreSSUB II instead evaluates the efficacy, safety, feasibility, reliability and cost-effectiveness of in-ambulance telemedicine for patients with suspicion of acute stroke.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27847888/
Language: English
Publication date: 2015-06-30
Study performed in Belgium.
“Development and Pilot Testing of 24/7 In-Ambulance Telemedicine for Acute Stroke: Prehospital Stroke Study at the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel-Project”
About: A pilot study to examine how telemedic contact (video etc) with in-hospital stroke staff could reduce the risk of stroke patients not being identified in the ambulance and therefore not getting the appropriate care and to see if this could speed upp treatment initiation. This project was called PreSSUB.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26950076/
Language: English
Publication date: 2016-03-08
Study performed in Belgium.
“Patient-oriented Emergency Care – a Telemedical Rescue Assistance System”
About: Research article about the TemRas project in Germany 2012 where ambulances were equipped with video and audio streaming possiblities to be able to consult with an EMS-physician in the hospital en route to the hospital.
URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/bmt-2012-4538/html
Language: English
Publication date: 2012-09-07
Study performed in Germany.
“The Telemedical Rescue Assistance System “TemRas” – development, first results, and impact”
About: Article which summarizes the German project TemRas which aimed to support the EMS teams with a tele-EMS-physician so that they could get a consultation from the hospital via video when they were out in the field.
URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/bmt-2013-0025/html
Language: English
Publication date: 2014-01-18
Study performed in Germany.
“Analgesia by telemedically supported paramedics compared with physician-administered analgesia: A prospective, interventional, multicentre trial”
About: A study performed in Germany 2012 where 5 ambulances were telemedically equipped with video streaming among other things to make it possible for paramedics to delegate analgesia. Part of the TemRas project in Germany.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26914284/
Language: English
Publication date: 2016-08-20
Study performed in Germany.