Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Telemedical support for prehospital emergency medical service in severe emergencies: an open-label randomised non-inferiority clinical trial
Authors' conclusion
Among severe emergency cases, tele-emergency medical service was non-inferior to conventional physician-based emergency medical service in terms of the occurrence of adverse events.
Study context
- Population
- Routine severe emergency patients aged ≥ 18 years, ground-based ambulance service of Aachen, Germany3,220 in primary analysis
- Participants
- 3,531 patients
- Comparison
- Tele-emergency medical service vs Control
- Tele-emergency medical servicen = 1,764
- Controln = 1,767reference
- Primary endpoint
- Intervention-related adverse events with suspected causality to the group assignment
Methodological detailsopen-label, parallel-group, non-inferiority, Reported per CONSORT statement for non-inferiority trials
- Open-label
- Parallel-group
- Non-inferiority
- Reported per CONSORT statement for non-inferiority trials
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
Intervention-related adverse events with suspected causality to group assignment
- Primary endpoint occurred only once, in the tele-EMS group
- Non-inferiority margin of - 0.015
- Non-inferiority confirmed
- 97.5% CI
- Primary analysis: 3220 patients
Further findings
Physician not deemed necessary
- Physician not deemed necessary: 893 of 1544 vs 108 of 1676
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Original publication
Telemedical support for prehospital emergency medical service in severe emergencies: an open-label randomised non-inferiority clinical trial. Crit Care. Published 30 June 2023. doi:10.
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