“Digital interaction in the patient process – Prehospital decision support”
About: An article which explains how the Jodapro solution (head camera) was developed during a project in Norway for facilitating communication between ambulance staff and in-hospital doctors. This was part of the PreViS project.
URL: https://previs.no/article.php?id=2
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-09-11
Project in Norway.
“Videoassistert beslutningsstøtte i akuttkjeden”
About: Sykehuset Innlandet in Norway made a pilot study in 2019 to assess the use of head cameras for ambulance personnel to be able to get decision support from physicians. Now the plan is to expand the use of the solution and develop it further.
URL: https://sykehuset-innlandet.no/fag-og-forskning/forskning/innovasjon/prehospital-beslutningsstotte
Language: Norwegian
Publication date: 2023-06-13
“Video-call Assisted Assessment of Acute Stroke in Addition to Stroke Severity Scales in a Prehospital Setting”
About: Interventional study in Denmark to investigate if a live video stream between the on-call neurologist and the EMS is feasible. The study focuses on patients with suspected stroke.
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05737420?term=ems+AND+video&sort=nwst&draw=2&rank=4
Language: English
Start date: 2023-05
End date: 2023-07
Study performed in Denmark.
“Telemedicine-enabled ambulances and mobile stroke units for prehospital stroke management”
About: An article discussing different models of mobile stroke units and telemedicine-enabled ambulances to improve prehospital stroke management. Among other things, it is explained how audio-visual telemedicine can be added to ambulances for enabling video consultation with a neurologist.
URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1357633X211047744
Publication date: 2021-10-12
“A Smart Ambulance With Information System and Decision-Making Process for Enhancing Rescue Efficiency”
About: An article that describes a system that is part of a project in Thailand for improving the communication between staff at the scene, such as paramedics, and hospitals. Video streaming is described as one of the solutions enabling video consultation using smart glasses.
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9983821?casa_token=l9iT_oJEV4IAAAAA:L6NE5-uqxpgIbE4wxES6FpfWMukdDPuDndTjdvk0lJvDig1JYIVOtDtUS_szZIQuxp-bFTYRBQ
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-12-13
“EMS-RTC: LSTM-based Adaptive Video Streaming for Smart Ambulance”
About: An article that describes the development of EMS-RTC which is a real-time video streaming platform specialized for the need of ambulance services. The paper explains the procedure of developing the platform and compared the platform with a state-of-the-art adaptive bitrate algorithm in real-world driving scenarios.
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10136348?casa_token=bBPTh4CYoJMAAAAA:CwwynJeHnMyb0uo8Hw3NvkiD45e-cYWaTfhmHzBVkhyqXxLp0f2gHCD7MVSqxA9EpGSnV_BDlw
Language: English
Publication date: 2023-06-01
“Review article: Prehospital telehealth for emergency care: A scoping review”
About: Review article of 28 articles which aims to answer the question ‘What telehealth platforms have been used to facilitate communication between prehospital healthcare providers and emergency clinicians in the past decade?’. The review shows that a number of different devices were used to transmit video etc. for video consultation between the ambulance staff and ED staff.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37102271/
Language: English
Publication date: 2023-04-27
“Preliminary study of prehospital use of smart glasses”
About: An investigation that was conducted to examine the use of smart glasses for bidirectional communication of video and audio between an ambulance and a hospital.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36330311/
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-11-01
Study performed in Japan.
“Prehospital video triage of potential stroke patients in North Central London and East Kent: rapid mixed-methods service evaluation”
About: A project which aimed to assess the use of video triage for stroke patients. The project involved several methods including evidence reviews, a survey of ambulance clinicians and interviews with clinicians at the hospital.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36166590/
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-09
Study performed in England.
“Telenotarzt bald auch in Heinsberg und Düren”
About: Article about the expansion of the possibility of video consultation in Germany from the ambulance with doctors at the hospital.
URL: https://www.aachener-nachrichten.de/nrw-region/telenotarzt-bald-auch-in-heinsberg-und-dueren_aid-26878239
Language: German
Publication date: 2011-07-28