Table 3 Changed emergency response during the call for emergencies where video was added from bystanders’ smartphone compared to retrospective emergency calls without video
From: Live video from bystanders’ smartphones to medical dispatchers in real emergencies
Provided emergency response | Changed emergency response | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Live Video N = 692 | No-Video N = 59,070 | Live Video N = 692 | No-Video N = 59,070 | Unadjusted OR (95%CI) | P-value | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | P-value | |
All emergency responses | 190 (27.5%) | 9607 (16.3%) | 1.95 (1.64–2.30) | < 0.001 | 1.58 (1.30–1.91) | < 0.001 | ||
Emergency response with lights and siren | 395 (56.4%) | 25,690 (43.2%) | 138 (34.9%) | 5555 (21.6%) | 1.95 (1.58–2.40) | < 0.001 | 1.60 (1.27–2.03) | < 0.001 |
Emergency response without lights and siren | 121 (17.3%) | 19,190 (32.2%) | 23 (19.0%) | 1529 (8.0%) | 2.71 (1.7–4.29) | < 0.001 | 1.84 (1.07–3.15) | < 0.001 |
Non- urgent ambulance | 15 (2.1%) | 1731 (2.9%) | 4 (26.7%) | 381 (22.0%) | 1.29 (0.41–4.07) | 0.67 | 1.16 (0.33–4.13) | 0.82. |
Medical advice or self-transportation | 161 (23 0%) | 12,459 (20.9%) | 25 (15.5%) | 2142 (17.2%) | 0.86 (0.58–1.36) | 0.58 | 0.73 (0.43–1.23) | 0.24 |