“Vuzix tries out smart glasses for emergency medical care in Japan”
About: Article describing that Smart Glasses is a new tool used in ambulances in Japan to enable two-way audio and video communication with doctors and nurses in the hospitals. The goal of the trial is to shorten the decision-making process and decide on preliminary treatments for the patients before their arrival at the hospital.
URL: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/asia/vuzix-tries-out-smart-glasses-emergency-medical-care-japan
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-08-17
Trial in Japan.
“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.
“Preliminary study of prehospital use of smart glasses”
About: An investigation that was conducted to examine the use of smart glasses for bidirectional communication of video and audio between an ambulance and a hospital.
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36330311/
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-11-01
Study performed in Japan.
“Development of an Emergency Medical Video Multiplexing Transport System (EMTS): Aiming at the Nation-Wide Prehospital Care in Ambulance”
About: A study in Japan to test a EMTS (Emergency Medical Video Multiplexing Transport System) which should enable real-time video transmission from the ambulance to the emergency department at the hospital to assist the paramedics and to prepare the doctors at the hospital.
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1022522810200
Language: English
Publication date: 2003-06-01
Study performed in Japan.
