RecruitingNot Applicable

Video-Interpreting in Prehospital Emergency Medicine - Feasibility Study

Austria50 participantsStarted 2023-02-06

Plain-language summary

50 responsive patients with language barriers will be included in this study. The prehospital emergency physician will start video-interpreting via a tablet. Feasibility, quality of communication, usability as well as changes in diagnosis and treatment will be gathered and analysed.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * adult patients, at least 18 years old * awake, responsive patients * language barrier (Albanian, Dari, Romanian, Turkish, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Hungarian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Kurdish (Kurmanci), Slovakian, Bulgarian, Polish, and Czech) Exclusion Criteria: * unconscious patients * out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients * delay of treatment or transportation due to e-interpreting * refusal of video-interpreting by the patient

What they're measuring

Technical Feasibility

Timeframe: Immediately after use of video-interpreting

Usability of video-interpreting

Timeframe: Immediately after use of video-interpreting

Impact on emergency physician's decisions

Timeframe: Immediately after use of video-interpreting

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06322004

SponsorMedical University of Vienna

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2026-12-31

Contact for this trial

Maike Fink, Dr.med.univ.

01/40400 41000 maike.fink@meduniwien.ac.at

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