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What is Prehospital Emergency Medicine

Chapter 6
Mobile Health Applications for Quality Healthcare Delivery
All efforts made by medical professionals to treat acute illnesses, life-threatening conditions and pain at the emergency site and to transport the patient—if needed—to a hospital.
Published in Chapter:
Mobile Health Applications in Prehospital Emergency Medicine
Bibiana Metelmann (Greifswald University, Germany) and Camilla Metelmann (Greifswald University, Germany)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8021-8.ch006
Abstract
Prehospital emergency medicine treats time-critical diseases at the emergency site to reduce preventable disabilities and deaths. mHealth can assist in prehospital emergency medicine in multiple ways. This chapter provides insights into emergency medicine and presents three different forms of mHealth in this field. One is a retrieval of medical data (e.g., with aid of smartphone applications). A second one uses unmanned aerial vehicles. And the third one establishes real time communication with medical experts. Examples are given to illustrate the variety of mHealth in prehospital emergency medicine.
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