Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health (Dec 2024)

Use of a Head-Mounted Assisted Reality, High-Resolution Telemedicine Camera and Satellite Communication Terminal in an Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

  • Christopher S. Russi, DO,
  • Sarayna S. McGuire, MD,
  • Aaron B. Klassen, MD,
  • Kate M. Skeens, MD,
  • Kate J. Arms, NREMT-P,
  • Lindsey D. Kaczmerick, NREMT-P,
  • Patrick J. Fullerton, DO, MHCM,
  • Louis M. Radnothy, DO,
  • Anuradha Luke, MD

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 4
pp. 584 – 589

Abstract

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Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service is testing a novel combination of technologies to enhance the ability to provide prehospital telemedicine connecting physicians with paramedics. Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service partnered with start-up company OPTAC-X to field test a novel head-mounted video camera connected with a satellite communications terminal to bring medical control emergency medicine physicians to the patient and paramedic by video. The authors believe this is the first report of a physician providing medical guidance to paramedics resuscitating an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using these technologies.