Video-Interpreting in Prehospital Emergency Medicine - Feasibility Study
ConditionCommunication Barriers
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorMedical University of Vienna
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.
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)
unconscious patients
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients
delay of treatment or transportation due to e-interpreting
refusal of video-interpreting by the patient