Videoconferencing Between Ambulances and Physician Manned Rapid Response Vehicles, Effects on On-site Patient Treatment and Patterns of Referral

University of Aarhus

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: All Acutely Ill or Injured Patients Receiving Care by Ambulance Personnel

Treatments: Device: iPad air with 4G/3G SIM card

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02093975

NRAA3

Details and patient eligibility

About

Physician manned rapid response vehicles are a limited resource in the prehospital handling of acute patients.

In this study mobile videoconferencing between ambulances and the rapid response vehicles enables patient consultation at a distance. Video consultation between patient and the prehospital physician can take place when the patient is at home or in the ambulance.

The primary aim of this study is to examine the effect of video consultation between physician manned rapid response vehicles and patients receiving treatment by ambulance personnel on the number of patients receiving final treatment on-site in the pre-hospital setting

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients receiving prehospital care by ambulance personnel
• Must receive either telephone or video consultation by physician in rapid response vehicle

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Video consultation

Experimental group

Description:

Patients in this arm receive video consultation from physician in doctor manned rapid response vehicle.

Treatment:

Device: iPad air with 4G/3G SIM card

Telephone consultation

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients receiving prehospital care by ambulance personnel whom receive telephone consultation/supervision by physician in rapid response vehicle.

Treatment:

Device: iPad air with 4G/3G SIM card