Technical and organisational feasibility of a multifunctional telemedicine system in an emergency medical service-an observational study

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 371-377

  Bergrath, Sebastian ^a   Rörtgen, Daniel ^a   Rossaint, Rolf ^a   Beckers, Stefan K ^a   Fischermann, Harold ^a   Brokmann, Jörg Ch ^a,b   Czaplik, Michael ^a   Felzen, Marc ^a   Schneiders, Marie Thérèse ^c   Skorning, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b Fire Department and Emergency Medical Service   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RESCUE PERSONNEL; TELERADIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

AMBULANCES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TELERADIOLOGY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 80053623028     PISSN: 1357633X     EISSN: 17581109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jtt.2011.110203     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Hess DC, Wang S, Hamilton W, et al. REACH: clinical feasibility of a rural telestroke network. Stroke 2005;36:2018-20
2. Ickenstein GW, Horn M, Schenkel J, et al. The use of telemedicine in combination with a new stroke-code-box significantly increases t-PA use in rural communities. Neurocrit Care 2005;3:27-32
3. Sejersten M, Sillesen M, Hansen PR, et al. Effect on treatment delay of prehospital teletransmission of 12-lead electrocardiogram to a cardiologist for immediate triage and direct referral of patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction to primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Am J Cardiol 2008;101:941-6
4. Schwamm LH, Holloway RG, Amarenco P, et al. A review of the evidence for the use of telemedicine within stroke systems of care: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke 2009;40:2616-34
5. Schwamm LH, Audebert HJ, Amarenco P, et al. Recommendations for the implementation of telemedicine within stroke systems of care: a policy statement from the American Heart Association. Stroke 2009;40:2635-60
6. Ting HH, Krumholz HM, Bradley EH, et al. Implementation and integration of prehospital ECGs into systems of care for acute coronary syndrome: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Interdisciplinary Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research, Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee, Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, and Council on Clinical Cardiology. Circulation 2008;118: 1066-79
7. Dhruva VN, Abdelhadi SI, Anis A, et al. ST-Segment Analysis Using Wireless Technology in Acute Myocardial Infarction (STAT-MI) trial. J Am Coll Cardiol 2007;50:509-13
8. Adams GL, Campbell PT, Adams JM, et al. Effectiveness of prehospital wireless transmission of electrocardiograms to a cardiologist via hand-held device for patients with acute myocardial infarction (from the Timely Intervention in Myocardial Emergency, North East Experience [TIME-NE]). Am J Cardiol 2006;98:1160-4
9. LaMonte MP, Cullen J, Gagliano DM, et al. Tele BAT: mobile telemedicine for the Brain Attack Team. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2000;9:128-35
10. LaMonte MP, Xiao Y, Hu PF, et al. Shortening time to stroke treatment using ambulance telemedicine: TeleBAT. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2004;13: 148-54
11. Mandellos GJ, Koutelakis GV, Panagiotakopoulos TC, et al. Establishing telemedicine system to support urgent incidents around the borderline of Greece: implemented architecture and evaluation. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2009;2009:1392-5
12. Banitsas K, Tachakra S, Stefanidis E, Boletis K. Using HSPA to improve the telemedical links on a moving ambulance. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2008;2008:739-42
13. Mandellos GJ, Lymperopoulos DK, Koukias MN, Tzes A, Lazarou N, Vagianos C. A novel mobile telemedicine system for ambulance transport. Design and evaluation. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2004;4: 3080-3
14. Skorning M, Bergrath S, Rörtgen D, et al. E-health in emergency medicine-the research project Med-on-@ix. Anaesthesist 2009;58: 285-92 [German]
15. Skorning M, Bergrath S, Rortgen D, et al. Teleconsultation does not prolong time intervals in a simulated prehospital cardiac emergency scenario. Circulation 2009;120:S1482 (Suppl. 2)
16. Moecke H, Dirks B, Friedrich H-J, et al. DIVI-Notarzteinsatzprotokoll Version 4.2 German Interdisciplinary Journal of Emergency Medicine 2004;7: 259-61
17. Weiss M, Bernoulli L, Zollinger A. The NACA scale. Construct and predictive validity of the NACA scale for prehospital severity rating in trauma patients. Anaesthesist 2001;50:150-4 [German]
18. Schlechtriemen T, Burghofer K, Lackner CK, Altemeyer KH. Validation of the NACA score based on objectifiable parameters: analysis of 104,962 primary air rescue missions in 1999-2003. German Interdisciplinary Journal of Emergency Medicine 2005;8:96-108
19. Bergrath S, Skorning M, Rörtgen D, et al. Is paper-based documentation in an emergency medical service adequate for retrospective scientific analysis? An evaluation of a physician-run service. Emerg Med J 2011;28: 320-4
20. Terkelsen CJ, Nørgaard BL, Lassen JF, et al. Telemedicine used for remote prehospital diagnosing in patients suspected of acute myocardial infarction. J Intern Med 2002;252:412-20
21. Scholz KH, Hilgers R, Ahlersmann D, et al. Contact-to-balloon time and door-to-balloon time after initiation of a formalized data feedback in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol 2008; 101:46-52
22. Kwak MJ, Kim JM, Shin IH, et al. Real-time medical control using a wireless audio-video transmission device in a pre-hospital emergency service in Korea. J Telemed Telecare 2009;15:404-8
23. Strauss DG, Sprague PQ, Underhill K, et al. Paramedic transtelephonic communication to cardiologist of clinical and electrocardiographic assessment for rapid reperfusion of ST-elevation myocardial infarction. J Electrocardiol 2007;40:265-70