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.
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.
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.
About: An observational retrospective study which analyses all telemedical consultations from the ambulance (audio and video) during 2014-2017 in Germany, Aachen.
URL: https://www.jmir.org/2019/10/e14907/
Language: English
Publication date: 2019-10-08
Study performed in Germany.
About: A study of a low cost mobile platform (audio and video) that could be brought into ambulances and used by paramedics to evaluate possible stroke patients. The aim of the study was to examine whether the low cost setup performed according to the desired quality.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26600433/
Language: English
Publication date: 2015-11-24
Study performed in America.
About: A randomised controlled clinical trial (NCT02617875) to investigate how telemedical support (video etc) can help the prehospital EMS.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28126019/
Language: English
Publication date: 2017-01-26
Study performed in Germany.
About: By identifying articles regarding prehospital trauma care and telemedicin 15 records were found. From this it was concluded that telemedical assistance via real-time telemetry systems, enabling video and audio conferencing between EMS staff and tele-emergency physicians, were associated with a higher treatment quality and a shorter time-to-treatment in invasive procedures.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30875702/
Language: English
Publication date: 2019-03-15
About: A study introduced by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust to investigate if video technology could be helpful to improve remote triage in ambulances. The video technique was tested early during the Covid-19 pandemic to improve remote triage. The patients who received a video call also got to respond to a survey afterward to evaluate the method.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34539255/
Language: English.
Publication date: 2021-09-01
Study performed in England.
