About: Interventional study to investigate if video-assisted CPR is more effective than telephone-assisted or not-instructed CPR. By adding video to the call the EMS dispatchers can guide bystanders on how to perform CPR.
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05639868?term=ems+AND+video&sort=nwst&draw=2&rank=7
Language: English
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2023-01-23
Study performed in Hungary.
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.
About: Interventional study to test video streaming in emergency calls. One group of paramedics and nurses answered emergency calls with video streaming and the other group with regular audio calls to compare if the group with video streaming could better assess the patient. The study went on for four months to collect data.
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05742412?term=ambulance+AND+video&sort=nwst&draw=2&rank=1
Language: English
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Study performed in Denmark.
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.
About: A study performed to assess the possibilities of real-time communication using video between paramedics and bystanders at scenes of emergencies. The study involves a simulation to assess the possibilities.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35978429/
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-08-17
Study performed in Israel.
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
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
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.
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
About: A continuation of the pilot study PreSSUB where PreSSUB II instead evaluates the efficacy, safety, feasibility, reliability and cost-effectiveness of in-ambulance telemedicine for patients with suspicion of acute stroke.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27847888/
Language: English
Publication date: 2015-06-30
Study performed in Belgium.
