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In today’s society, the digital world is taking over everything including technology
in the healthcare field. However, this article from The Medical Futurist reveals many of
the benefits that technology can bring into the medical that can improve patient care
and recover. This proficient article first brings to light that crucial fact that time is
everything in an emergency. Even just a few can be the difference between being able to
save the patient or not. Technology can be one of the ways that doctors can battle time
and be successful.
After reading this article, I learned about the use of new technology in the form of
an app called Pulsara. This innovative app actually has the ability to make
communication in the emergency much easier. The paramedics can actually inform the
Emergency Room before arriving with a patient at the hospital. Another ability this app
has is to display the estimated time of the patient's arrival based on the GPS to make
sure it accurate. Incredibly enough, the Paramedic have the option of taking pictures of
the situation or emergency and send it to the doctors and nurses that will be taking care
of the patient. This allows the doctors to be more prepared leading them to deliver
improved care to the patient. Another tool in Pulsara is being able to alert other
specialties that could help the case like a cardiologist making the treatment much more
efficient and reliable. The creation of this app has the power to heavily improve ER care.
There also many other apps that are similar to this that are created to improve the
I also discovered an amazing technology that is usually used for other purposes
but is not utilized to help the medical field better equip its doctors and nurses. There is
a video game called Airway EX that can help in real life emergency situations. This video
game gives a medical professional the ability to perform stimulates airway procedures,
which provides a realistic situation for doctors to practice their skills. This helps them
learn how to handle their stress in an emergency situation so it won't affect their
performance. It also gives them the chance to continuously improve their skills leading
them to be more comfortable and prepared for real-life situations. The game allows
them also to work on their speed which is a crucial component in the ER where seconds
Through this article, I was able to uncover numerous ways technology can be
technology at the tip of our finger that can better the world at the simple push of a
button. I was enlightened by the many different functions that technology can have for
Every minute spent without treatment could reduce the chance of survival in case of medical
emergency and trauma patients. Digital health innovations making patients the point-of-care could
become a great help for first responders and emergency units in the battle against time. Here, we
collected what trends and technologies will have an impact on the future of emergency medicine.
depends on the speed and efficiency of emergency care services. The work of doctors, paramedics,
and nurses being in the first line of the battle against early and meaningless death or paralyzation is
extremely difficult and inspirational at the same time. Sometimes there are only seconds left to save
a patient’s life. In case of high-risk patients, each minute waiting for treatment significantly
reducestheir chance of surviving. This includes cardiac arrest patients, where brain damage
No wonder that millions of people (including The Medical Futurist team) jittered through more
than 300 episodes of Chicago County General Hospital’s ER starting from the 1990s, and that the
gig ensured a standing place for George Clooney among the biggest stars. The suggestive power of
doctors and nurses saving lives also gave a rise to medical documentaries, such as the BBC’s An
Hour To Save Your Life, the American docudrama entitled Untold Stories of the ER with
re-enactments of real-life medical stories or the more recent incarnation of ER, entitled Chicago
Med.
Patients to the hospital or hospital to the patient?
In spite of the impression through the television screens that the emergency department is one of
the most important medical specialties, the field is relatively new and it is mostly the product of the
accelerated, globalized world we live in. Some experts say that modern emergency medicine
services were first developed in the United States in the 1960s; as a response to the increased
number of traffic accidents due to the boom of cars on the newly built American highways. Later
one, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, and Singapore followed shortly
thereafter, developing their respective emergency medical systems in the 1970s and 1980s.
While the aim of emergency care is the same in every country – providing timely care to victims of
long-term morbidity –; two different approaches emerged. The Anglo-American model represents
the “patient to the hospital” practice, while the Franco-German model means the “hospital to the
The latter is used in most European countries, and it means that medical doctors supported by
paramedics treat more patients on the scene of an accident or in their homes before bringing them
to the hospital, thus emergency care happens on the scene or en route to the hospital. In the case of
the Anglo-American model, fewer patients are treated on the spot, and they rather transport the
injured to the emergency room as fast as possible for treatment. Currently, countries in the
developed world use some practices from both models, but the latest digital technologies will rather
push emergency medicine in the direction of the “hospital to the patient” approach. Let me show
you how!
We collected the latest innovations making it possible to treat medical and trauma emergencies
faster and more efficiently than ever before. Dávid Márkus, first aid expert and medical student at
Semmelweis Medical School, helped us a lot with finding the relevant directions. He is also the
developer of a chatbot on Messenger that teaches people how to do proper CPR in Hungary.
It allows paramedics to alert an emergency department before arrival with the patient. It does so not
only by calculating the estimated time of arrival based on GPS, but users are able to attach pictures
of the ECG, the injury, the medicine list of the patient, send the personal data and the parameters of
the patient, etc. Alerting the stroke team/cardiologists or anyone else who might be involved in the
treatment of the patient this way allows the ED workers to prepare much better and faster for the
On their website, the team said they got the idea when a group of physicians, fed up with the
pitfalls of their current acute care protocols, posed the question at a dinner table “How can we
improve patient care in our facilities?” I hope in the future, they’ll have more fruitful dinners like
this one.
Full Code Pro is a free and easy-to-use app developed by the American Heart Association. It makes
it easy to document critical interventions, a „code” during critical events such as CPR or cardiac
arrest resuscitation. It not only allows the worker to record events (e.g. shock) with only one tap,
measures times, counts down according to the protocol but also helps the team by having a
metronome built in to optimize chest compression rhythm. Full Code Pro makes it easy to
administer cardiac arrests, and also gives an opportunity to debrief the case so that the team can
learn from the collected data as well. Thus, you can fully focus on the patient without sacrificing
Dr. Ray Bertino, Clinical Professor of Radiology and Surgery at the University of Illinois College
of Medicine, worked with a team of aviation experts to develop airRx, the world’s only smartphone
app that’s designed to help physicians deal with some of the most common in-flight medical
emergencies. The app contains the 23 most common medical emergency situations that could be
encountered during a flight, various flight and cabin crew roles, as well as the medico-legal
implications for volunteering to assist. It could give a piece of mind for doctors traveling on board
of an airplane as well as passengers fearing that something might happen to them while going from
video game technology to healthcare. The app allows practicing anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and
endotracheal intubation scenarios so that the doctors and paramedics can better prepare for difficult
airway management. The app scores the worker’s speed, the caused damage, bleeding and also
monitors the virtual patient’s vital signs while the procedure takes place. Moreover, it can be used
anywhere – on the subway, at home or on the Bahamas during holidays (but we don’t recommend
that).
The 911bot, a messenger-based chatbot was developed during a Disrupt Hackathon in New York
with the aim to help users in emergency situations. It lets anyone report emergencies to the
authorities through a quick image-based interface, which might be a lot faster than making a phone
call. And as your report is sent through the system, it offers options to send extra information and
pictures or video footage. As most people are frozen when a lethal or serious accident happens, the
app gives advice on how to handle the situation well and how not to cause even more harm to the
injured or bystanders.
faster to treat a patient on the spot. No matter whether it iss ultrasound, ECG or laboratory testing,
medical specialists have an opportunity to use bedside point-of-care ultrasound devices (PoCUS) to
answer some yes-or-no questions (e.g. intraabdominal bleeding). Ultrasound machines such as
SonoSite’s or Clarius’ hand-held products allow any doctor to use them easily while working on a
Yet, we all know it’s not only about the size. Not so long ago, it was a huge innovation that a
smartphone was able to make a one-lead ECG. However, even if it showed the rhythm, it wasn’t
able to replace standard 12-lead ECG. In many cases, if the doctor does not see all the 12 leads, a
possible heart attack might be easily mistaken. Now, Smart Heart Pro allows users to make a
12-lead ECG with a smartphone or tablet wirelessly, which is as accurate as a similar standard
bedside exam.
Luckily, the long-hours waiting for laboratory blood test results will also be over soon with
hand-held, lightweight point-of-care testing (PoCT) devices, such as the i-STAT testing equipment.
Abbott’s fast and accurate blood analyzer allows doctors to evaluate the patient’s blood sample on
the spot and wirelessly transmit the results or the data to colleagues. Invaluable time gain during
emergency situations!