“A Systematic Review of the Implementation Challenges of Telemedicine Systems in Ambulances”
About: A review of the implementation of telemedicine such as video conferencing in ambulances. The paper summarizes and discusses the challenges based on the papers in the subject.
URL: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/tmj.2016.0248
Language: English
Publication date: 2017-09-01
“EMS Agenda 2050 Meets the COVID-19 Pandemic”
About: A paper which points out six guiding principles that will provide the framework for the evolution of the EMS system until 2050 where one principle is adaptable and innovative. This principle evolved from the pandemic where it was realised that audiovisual support in EMS settings was a great resource that needs further development and implementation.
URL: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/hs.2021.0179
Language: English
Publication date: 2022-05-31
“Disaster Relief and Emergency Medical Services (DREAMS): Digital EMS Yearly Project Overview and Status”
About: Review article of the DREAMS project which was developed by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The goals of the project were to create a virtual presence of a physican during the ambulance transportation to the hospital and to provide a system to assist EMS personell in situations as mass-casualities, disaster relief and so on. This was done with help of video conferencing.
URL: https://www.academia.edu/53375158/DREAMS_Disaster_Relief_and_Emergency_Medical_Services_and_Digital_EMS
Language: English
Publication date: 2001-10-22
Study performed in America.
“Patient-oriented Emergency Care – a Telemedical Rescue Assistance System”
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.
“The Telemedical Rescue Assistance System “TemRas” – development, first results, and impact”
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.
“Mobile telemedicine for moving vehicle scenarios: Wireless technology options and challenges”
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
“A research proposition for using high definition video in emergency medical services”
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
“Exploring gender differences in perceptions of 3D telepresence collaboration technology: an example from emergency medical care”
About: A paper which explores if there are any differences between the genders when it comes to the study “Exploring the potential of video technologies for collaboration in emergency medical care”. The result was that the 3D technology offered male paramedics more often a feeling of good self-efficacy which could lead to a better job-performance for males in the future.
URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1182475.1182517
Language: English
Publication date: 2006-10-14
Study performed in America.
“Real-Time Adaptation to Time-Varying Constraints for Medical Video Communications”
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
“Performance analysis of medical video streaming over 4G and beyond small cells for indoor and moving vehicle (ambulance) scenarios”
About: This paper investigates the use of 4G and other small cell networks for medical video streaming for the paramedics both in the ambulance and in other indoor scenarios. The paper focuses on how small cell networks are needed for real-time video streaming because of more reliable diagnostic quality and it will be able to handle high data rates.
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7015948
Language: English
Publication date: 2014-11-03