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ReviewInternational journal of emergency medicine2014

Telemedicine in pre-hospital care: a review of telemedicine applications in the pre-hospital environment.

Ahjoku Amadi-Obi, Peadar Gilligan, Niall Owens, Cathal O'Donnell

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Review in International journal of emergency medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 140 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Remote real-time supervision of prehospital point-of-care ultrasound: a feasibility study.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ahjoku Amadi-ObiClinical Research Department, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland ; Emergency Department, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin 9, Ireland.
Peadar GilliganEmergency Department, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin 9, Ireland.
Niall OwensSchool of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Cathal O'DonnellNational Ambulance Services, Oak House, Millennium Park, Naas, County Kildare, Ireland.
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland · IEBeaumont Hospital · IE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The right person in the right place and at the right time is not always possible; telemedicine offers the potential to give audio and visual access to the appropriate clinician for patients. Advances in information and communication technology (ICT) in the area of video-to-video communication have led to growth in telemedicine applications in recent years. For these advances to be properly integrated into healthcare delivery, a regulatory framework, supported by definitive high-quality research, should be developed. Telemedicine is well suited to extending the reach of specialist services particularly in the pre-hospital care of acute emergencies where treatment delays may affect clinical outcome. The exponential growth in research and development in telemedicine has led to improvements in clinical outcomes in emergency medical care. This review is part of the LiveCity project to examine the history and existing applications of telemedicine in the pre-hospital environment. A search of electronic databases including Medline, Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE), Cochrane, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) for relevant papers was performed. All studies addressing the use of telemedicine in emergency medical or pre-hospital care setting were included. Out of a total of 1,279 articles reviewed, 39 met the inclusion criteria and were critically analysed. A majority of the studies were on stroke management. The studies suggested that overall, telemedicine had a positive impact on emergency medical care. It improved the pre-hospital diagnosis of stroke and myocardial infarction and enhanced the supervision of delivery of tissue thromboplasminogen activator in acute ischaemic stroke. Telemedicine presents an opportunity to enhance patient management. There are as yet few definitive studies that have demonstrated whether it had an effect on clinical outcome.

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eHealthEmergency medical servicesEmergency medicineMobile healthPre-hospital careTelecareTelehealthTelemedicineTelestrokeTeletrauma

Identifiers

PMID25635190
PMCPMC4306051
OpenAlexW2112677640

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