Renoj Varughese, Mitchell Cater-Cyker, Rupa Sabbineni, Sara Sigler, Sara Champoux, Mark Gamber, Susan J Burnett, Gerad Troutman, Chan Chuang, Richard Sanders, John Doran, Nushin Nataneli, Derek R Cooney, Joshua A Bloomstone, Brian M Clemency
INTRODUCTION: Emergency medical services (EMS) facilitated telemedicine encounters have been proposed as a strategy to reduce transports to hospitals for patients who access the 9-1-1 system. It is unclear which patient impressions are most likely able to be treated in place. It is also unknown if the increased time spent facilitating the telemedicine encounter is offset by the time saved from reducing the need for transport. The objective of this study was to determine the association between the impressions of EMS clinicians of the patients' primary problems and transport avoidance, and to describe the effects of telemedicine encounters on prehospital intervals...
October 6, 2023: Prehospital Emergency Care