• Am J Emerg Med · Jan 2023

    Case Reports

    Challenges of remotely witnessed emergencies - A case of international out-of-hospital cardiac arrest recognition via video call.

    • Samuel B Beger, Eduardo Mejia, and Bentley J Bobrow.
    • McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Department of Emergency Medicine, United States. Electronic address: samuel.b.beger@uth.tmc.edu.
    • Am J Emerg Med. 2023 Jan 1; 63: 182.e1182.e3182.e1-182.e3.

    AbstractWe present the first report, to our knowledge, of an Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) witnessed during a remote international video meeting. We report an emergency system activation and OHCA resuscitation initiated after an OHCA in a 41-year-old otherwise healthy female in Houston, Texas witnessed by a co-worker in Australia during a 1-on-1 Zoom video call. Remotely witnessed emergencies such as OHCA present unique challenges to successful cardiac resuscitation and will likely become significantly more common in the future as remote video calls increase.Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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