“The Integration of Live Video Tools to Help Bystanders During an Emergency Call: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Simulation Study”
About: A study that aimed to propose and evaluate the relevance of a living lab methodology involving video calls in simulated life-threatening emergency situations. The study shows that the medical dispatcher has an interest in visualizing the scene with live video.
URL: https://www.researchprotocols.org/2023/1/e40699
Language: English
Publication date: 2023-02-01
Study performed in Switzerland.
“Do Video Calls Improve Dispatcher-Assisted First Aid for Infants with Foreign Body Airway Obstruction? A Randomized Controlled Trial/Simulation Study”
About: An interventional study performed to assess if video calls could improve the results of foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO) by bystanders on infants. One group in the study got to perform first aid with video call and one group with audio call, which were both instructed by the medical emergency dispatcher.
URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jnms/89/5/89_JNMS.2022_89-513/_article/-char/ja/
Language: English
Publication date: 2022
Study performed in Japan.
“Video from the emergency scene before ambulance arrival – Introducing, analyzing, and understanding video to the medical dispatcher with focus on cardiac arrest”
About: Article about how video can be streamed from emergency scenes before the arrival of the ambulance. The focus of the article is patients with cardiac arrest.
URL: https://research.regionh.dk/en/publications/video-from-the-emergency-scene-before-ambulance-arrival-introduci
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-02-04
“Contribution of Live Video to Physicians’ Remote Assessment of Suspected COVID-19 Patients in an Emergency Medical Communication Centre: A Retrospective Study and Web-Based Survey”
About: An observational study and a survey study were performed in Switzerland during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to the increase of emergency callers video calls started becoming reality to make the assessment of the patient more accurate. This study measures the effect of the use of live video on medical decisions in an Emergency Medical Communication Center.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36834002/
Language: English
Publication date: 2023-02-14
Study performed in Switzerland.
“From hearing to seeing: medical dispatchers’ experience with use of video streaming in medical emergency calls – a qualitative study”
About: A qualitative study to investigate video streaming for communication between the emergency medical dispatchers and the 911 caller.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36526307/
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-12-16
Study performed in Norway.
“Study of prehospital video telehealth for callers with mental health-related complaints”
About: A prospective study that investigated and compared video telehealth with voice-only triage to determine the need for ambulance dispatch. The inclusion criterias in the study were adult 911 callers with non-urgent mental health concerns.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36456169/
Language: English
Publication date: 2023-02
Study performed in Australia.
“Videoconferencing Between Ambulances and Physician at the Emergency Medical Dispatch Center, Effects on On-Site Patient Treatment and Patterns of Referral”
About: Interventional study performed i Denmark to evaluate the use of video consultation between the ambulance staff and the Emergency medical dispatch center. It is aimed to evaluate if this will improve off-site patient treatment.
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02095067?term=telemedicine&titles=ambulance&draw=2&rank=8
Language: English
Start date: 2013-06
End date: 2014-02
Study performed in Denmark.
“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.
