Telemedical support for prehospital emergency medical service in severe emergencies: an open-label randomised non-inferiority clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A tele-emergency medical service with a remote emergency physician for severe prehospital emergencies may overcome the increasing number of emergency calls and shortage of emergency medical service providers. We analysed whether routine use of a tele-emergency medical service is non-inferior to a conventional physician-based one in the occurrence of intervention-related adverse events.

Methods

This open-label, randomised, controlled, parallel-group, non-inferiority trial included all routine severe emergency patients aged ≥ 18 years within the ground-based ambulance service of Aachen, Germany. Patients were randomised in a 1:1 allocation ratio to receive either tele-emergency medical service (n = 1764) or conventional physician-based emergency medical service (n =

SUBMITTER: Kowark A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10311733 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature