Telemedical support for prehospital Emergency Medical Service (TEMS trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing numbers of emergency calls, shortages of Emergency Medical Service (EMS), physicians, prolonged emergency response times and regionally different quality of treatment by EMS physicians require improvement of this system. Telemedical solutions have been shown to be beneficial in different emergency projects, focused on specific disease patterns. Our previous pilot studies have shown that the implementation of a holistic prehospital EMS teleconsultation system, between paramedics and experienced tele-EMS physicians, is safe and feasible in different emergency situations. We aim to extend the clinical indications for this teleconsultation system. We hypothesize that the use of a tele-EMS physician is noninferior regarding the occurrence of system-induced patient

SUBMITTER: Stevanovic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5270339 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature