“Videoconferencing Between Ambulances and Physician Manned Rapid Response Vehicles, 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 a physician in a rapid response vehicle. It is aimed to evaluate if this will improve off-site patient treatment.
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02093975?term=video&titles=ambulance&draw=2&rank=2
Language: English
Start date: 2014-05
End date: 2014-12
Study performed in Denmark.
“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.
“SatCare: Remote Support for Ambulance Clinicians in Medical Emergencies”
About: An interventional study to evaluate if the transmission of video and ultrasound images to in-hospital doctors could save time and improve patient care. Ultrasound scans were taken in the ambulance and a video summary of the patient’s condition was recorded and sent to the hospital. En route to the hospital the ambulance staff received feedback from the consultant doctor.
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03323229?term=telemedicine&titles=ambulance&draw=2&rank=7
Language: English
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Study performed in Scotland.
“Prehospital Study at the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel II (PreSSUB II)”
About: Interventional study to evaluate the efficacy, safety, feasibility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of in-ambulance telemedicine for patients with suspicion of acute stroke. This study is called PreSSUB II.
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02270541?term=telemedicine&titles=ambulance&draw=2&rank=4
Language: English
Start date: 2014-11
End date: 2017-02
Study performed in Germany.
“Telemedical Support for Prehospital Emergency Medical Service (TEMS)”
About: Interventional study that was performed in Aachen, Germany. The purpose was to examine if the use of a telemedcine-EMS physician instead of on the scene was safe and feasible for non-life-threatening cases. The paramedics in the ambulance could talk to the EMS-physician via video and audio to diagnose and treat the patient. The telemedicine system was developed in the TemRas project.
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02617875
Language: English
Start date: 2018-07-09
End date: 2019-12-18
Study in performed in Germany.
“Evaluation of the Impact of a Teleconsultation Performed During Ambulance’s Displacement on the On-scene Emergency Team’s Stay and Patient’s Satisfaction”
About: Interventional study which is performed to evaluate the impact of teleconsultation via a video call with Whatsapp to help the paramedics treat the patient in the ambulance and give the hospital valuable information.
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05274724?term=ambulance&draw=2&rank=1
Language: English
Start date: 2022-03-07
End date: 2022-06-30
Study performed in Brazil.
“Implementation phase of a multicentre prehospital telemedicine system to support paramedics: feasibility and possible limitations”
About: Article about a study in Germany where a telemedicine system, including audio and video streaming, was implemented in ambulances with paramedics to test the feasibility and limitations.
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1757-7241-21-54
Language: English
Publication date: 2013-07-11
Study performed in Germany.
“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.
“Telehealth Impact on Primary Care Related Ambulance Transports”
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.
“Adaptive emergency scenery video communications using HEVC for responsive decision support in disaster incidents”
About: This study proposes a unifying framework for m-Health video communication systems that provides for the joint optimization of video quality, bitrate demands, and encoding time. One possible application of this is moving ambulances where paramedics treat the patients with help from remote doctors via video consultation.
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7318328
Language: English
Publication date: 2015-11-05
Study performed in Cyprus.
