Mobile Transmission of Prehospital Vital Signs to the Emergency Department

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emergency Medical Service; Triage; Telemedicine

Treatments: Device: Real time transmission of patient related data. Device used: MobiMed 3.1, manufactured by Ortivus AB Sweden

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02090452

NRAA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine if real time transmission of vital signs, ECG and chat communication between the prehospital ambulances and the emergency department has an effect on patient mortality, ICU admission, hospitalization time, time to doctor, time to treatment and time to diagnostics

Enrollment: 250 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients transported with ambulance to the emergency department

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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250 participants in 2 patient groups

Transmission of vital signs, ecg, chat

Experimental group

Description:

Data from patients transported in ambulances with equipment which enables real time transmission of vital signs, ecg and chat from ambulances to the emergency department.

Treatment:

Device: Real time transmission of patient related data. Device used: MobiMed 3.1, manufactured by Ortivus AB Sweden

No transmission of data

No Intervention group

Description:

Patient transported with conventional ambulances without the possibility to transmit real time patient related data.