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
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.
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-02-04
About: An article that describes what was found in completed 5G trials involving ambulance professionals. The trials showed that the decision making for the remotely based physician was more accurate and faster when using video-audio compliment and vital signs compared with audio-only communications.
Language: English
Publication date: 2023-03-08
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.
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-12-13
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.
Language: English
Publication date: 2023-06-01
About: A paper which discusses the increase of telehealth care within the Mayo clinic center in response to the covid-19 pandemic. Among other things the need for video consultation in ambulances and at home has increased a lot as a result of limiting the physical contact between covid-19 patients and the caregivers.
URL: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/tmr.2020.0032
Language: English
Publication date: 2021-02-24
About: A paper that describes a mobile emergency system including real-time video to improve the readiness of in-hospital staff to reduce mortality in rural areas of Canada. Since great distances often lead to long wait times this system could prepare the staff at the hospital during the transportation of the patient.
URL: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/tmj.2007.0059
Language: English
Publication date: 2008-08-26
Study performed in Canada.
About: Article that looks into mobile telemedicine in ambulances. The benefits and limitations of the wireless broadband communications are discussed.
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1084804512000173
Language: English
Publication date: 2012-05
About: This paper proposes the relay of high definition video between the ambulance crew and the hospital using public internet infrastructure through utilising a virtual path slice controller as well as it proposes a set of criteria for evaluating the use of video.
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221188371300035X
Language: English
Publication date: 2013-04-01
About: The goal of this paper is to provide methods for real-time end-to-end systems that dynamically adapt to time-varying channel states while maximizing the clinical video quality. The latter is expected to expedite the adoption of mHealth medical video communications in standard clinical practice by preserving the quality thresholds for remote diagnosis and decision making. The use of this in ambulances is discussed.
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7976301
Language: English
Publication date: 2017-07-12
