Video-Interpreting in Prehospital Emergency Medicine - Feasibility Study

Medical University of Vienna

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Communication Barriers

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06322004

1718/2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

50 responsive patients with language barriers will be included in this study. The prehospital emergency physician will start video-interpreting via a tablet. Feasibility, quality of communication, usability as well as changes in diagnosis and treatment will be gathered and analysed.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult patients, at least 18 years old
• awake, responsive patients
• language barrier (Albanian, Dari, Romanian, Turkish, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Hungarian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Kurdish (Kurmanci), Slovakian, Bulgarian, Polish, and Czech)

Exclusion criteria

• unconscious patients
• out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients
• delay of treatment or transportation due to e-interpreting
• refusal of video-interpreting by the patient