New Emergency Medicine Paradigm via Augmented Telemedicine

In many emergency scenarios, medical care is initially provided by first responders in the field and later by physicians at designated centers. In the setting of traumatic injury, the so-called “golden hour,” the efficiency of patient triage and medical transport may greatly affect the outcomes of emergency treatment. In current practice, the initial communication and interaction between physician and first responders is limited to voice or, in rare instances, video conferencing, while the attending physicians cannot receive other more comprehensive, critical patient information. This paper proposes to address these fundamental technology gaps and information bottlenecks by leveraging the state-of-the-art 3D teleimmersion and augmented reality (AR) technologies.