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Real-time video communication between ambulance paramedic and scene – a simulation-based study
INTRODUCTION: Telemedicine has been widely used in various medical settings including in Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The goal of this study was to assess the possible roles of real-time video communication between paramedics and bystanders at scenes of emergency, in the analysis and treatment...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382790/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35978429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08445-w |
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author | Sonkin, Roman Jaffe, Eli Wacht, Oren Morse, Helena Bitan, Yuval |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Telemedicine has been widely used in various medical settings including in Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The goal of this study was to assess the possible roles of real-time video communication between paramedics and bystanders at scenes of emergency, in the analysis and treatment of patients. METHODS: 44 experienced paramedics participated in a simulation. Participants communicated with the experimenter presenting video clips showing patients that simulated three emergency scenarios: trauma, an unresponsive patient with cardiac arrest, and an opiate overdose. The simulation sessions were conducted through Zoom™, recorded, and then analyzed to document participants’ questions, requests, instructions, and their timings during each scenario. RESULTS: The trauma scenario was assessed most promptly, with instructions to handle the bleeding provided by all paramedics. In the unresponsive patient with cardiac arrest scenario, most of the participants achieved a correct initial diagnosis, and in the opiate overdose scenario over half of paramedics sought visual clinical clues for the differential diagnoses of loss of consciousness and their causes. Additional results show the type of assessment, treatment and diagnosis participants provided in each scenario, and their confidence about situation. CONCLUSIONS: The findings show that direct video communication between paramedic and scene may facilitate correct diagnosis, provision of instructions for treatment, and early preparation of medications or equipment. These may decrease time to correct diagnosis and lifesaving treatment and impact patient morbidity and mortality. Moreover, the findings highlight the difference between incidents with higher visual clarity, such as trauma, and conditions that require an extended diagnosis to reveal, such as unresponsive patients. This may also increase the paramedics’ mental preparedness for what is expected at the scene. |
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spelling | pubmed-93827902022-08-18 Real-time video communication between ambulance paramedic and scene – a simulation-based study Sonkin, Roman Jaffe, Eli Wacht, Oren Morse, Helena Bitan, Yuval BMC Health Serv Res Research INTRODUCTION: Telemedicine has been widely used in various medical settings including in Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The goal of this study was to assess the possible roles of real-time video communication between paramedics and bystanders at scenes of emergency, in the analysis and treatment of patients. METHODS: 44 experienced paramedics participated in a simulation. Participants communicated with the experimenter presenting video clips showing patients that simulated three emergency scenarios: trauma, an unresponsive patient with cardiac arrest, and an opiate overdose. The simulation sessions were conducted through Zoom™, recorded, and then analyzed to document participants’ questions, requests, instructions, and their timings during each scenario. RESULTS: The trauma scenario was assessed most promptly, with instructions to handle the bleeding provided by all paramedics. In the unresponsive patient with cardiac arrest scenario, most of the participants achieved a correct initial diagnosis, and in the opiate overdose scenario over half of paramedics sought visual clinical clues for the differential diagnoses of loss of consciousness and their causes. Additional results show the type of assessment, treatment and diagnosis participants provided in each scenario, and their confidence about situation. CONCLUSIONS: The findings show that direct video communication between paramedic and scene may facilitate correct diagnosis, provision of instructions for treatment, and early preparation of medications or equipment. These may decrease time to correct diagnosis and lifesaving treatment and impact patient morbidity and mortality. Moreover, the findings highlight the difference between incidents with higher visual clarity, such as trauma, and conditions that require an extended diagnosis to reveal, such as unresponsive patients. This may also increase the paramedics’ mental preparedness for what is expected at the scene. BioMed Central 2022-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9382790/ /pubmed/35978429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08445-w Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Sonkin, Roman Jaffe, Eli Wacht, Oren Morse, Helena Bitan, Yuval Real-time video communication between ambulance paramedic and scene – a simulation-based study |
title | Real-time video communication between ambulance paramedic and scene – a simulation-based study |
title_full | Real-time video communication between ambulance paramedic and scene – a simulation-based study |
title_fullStr | Real-time video communication between ambulance paramedic and scene – a simulation-based study |
title_full_unstemmed | Real-time video communication between ambulance paramedic and scene – a simulation-based study |
title_short | Real-time video communication between ambulance paramedic and scene – a simulation-based study |
title_sort | real-time video communication between ambulance paramedic and scene – a simulation-based study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382790/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35978429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08445-w |
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