“Telemedicine Can Replace the Neurologist on a Mobile Stroke Unit”
About: Research article about a comparative study where one group of stroke patients in a mobile stroke unit was examined by an onboard neurologist while the other group was examined via a telemedicine neurologist (audio and video). It was found that a telemedicine neurologist gave a reliable and accurate assessment of the stroke patient.
URL: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.015363
Language: English
Publication date: 2017-01-12
“Comparison of physician staffed emergency teams with paramedic teams assisted by telemedicine – a randomized, controlled simulation study”
About: A cohort study in Germany which aimed to compare a group where paramedics were assisted by an EMS physician via telemedicin and a group where the EMS physician was not remote. The telemedical functions included video streaming.
URL: https://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(12)00314-0/fulltext
Language: English
Publication date: 2012-07-03
“Emergency Telemedicine Mobile Ultrasounds Using a 5G-Enabled Application: Development and Usability Study”
About: Study that investigates the use of a 5G application which enables streaming of audio, video and ultrasound transmission from the ambulance to a hospital.
URL: https://formative.jmir.org/2022/5/e36824
Language: English
Publication date: English
Study performed in Germany.
“Outcomes from a Comprehensive Stroke Telemedicine Program”
About: A case study to compare telephone, face-to-face and telemedicine (audio-video communication between a stroke specialist and a remote party like a paramedic) to examine stroke patients.
URL: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.1089/tmj.2007.0062
Language: English
Publication date: 2008-05-20
“Implementation phase of a multicentre prehospital telemedicine system to support paramedics: feasibility and possible limitations”
About: Article about a study in Germany where a telemedicine system, including audio and video streaming, was implemented in ambulances with paramedics to test the feasibility and limitations.
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1757-7241-21-54
Language: English
Publication date: 2013-07-11
Study performed in Germany.
“Live video from bystanders’ smartphones to medical dispatchers in real emergencies”
About: Article about an intervention study in Denmark where the GoodSAM app was used by bystander’s to add live video streaming to emergency calls to help the EMS dispatcher make a better assessment of the injuries.
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12873-021-00493-5
Language: English
Publication date: 2021-09-06
Study performed in Denmark.
“Telehealth Impact on Primary Care Related Ambulance Transports”
About: A cohort study which investigated the development and impact of tele-consultations before ambulance transports to determine if the patient needed ambulance transportation. It was found that these consultations may address unnecessary ambulance transports and thereby reducing EMS costs.
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10903127.2019.1568650
Language: English
Publication date: 2019-02-08
Study performed in America.
“Adaptive emergency scenery video communications using HEVC for responsive decision support in disaster incidents”
About: This study proposes a unifying framework for m-Health video communication systems that provides for the joint optimization of video quality, bitrate demands, and encoding time. One possible application of this is moving ambulances where paramedics treat the patients with help from remote doctors via video consultation.
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7318328
Language: English
Publication date: 2015-11-05
Study performed in Cyprus.
“Shortening time to stroke treatment using ambulance telemedicine: TeleBAT”
About: A cohort study to examine the difference between the control group with patients who had stroke evaluated and treated with rt-PA on arrival to the emergency department while the intervention group patients were evaluated in the ambulance by transmitting a video that was assessed by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke training videotape.
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1052305704000357
Language: English
Publication date: 2004-03-04
Study performed in America.
“5G-Network-Enabled Smart Ambulance: Architecture, Application, and Evaluation”
About: A study which aims to propose a 5G-enabled smart ambulance service (including remote video communication) where in-hospital doctors can, by wearing VR glasses, diagnose and improve the care given in the ambulances.
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9354923
Language: English
Publication date: 2021-02-16
