A perspective of telemedicine videostreaming systems for emergency care

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Thanks to the diffusion of pervasive computing and the evolution of communication technologies, medical information is exchanged for the purpose of consultations and health monitoring in the constantly developing field of telemedicine. Telemedicine systems are gaining popularity as a way to deliver care in different medical contexts including emergency interventions, telesurgery, etc., and as a solution to overcome long distances from medical centers such as in rural areas. During and after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, there was a boost in the area of telemedicine due to the difficulties in accessing primary care from patients and due to the restriction of physical medical consultation. Utilizing cutting-edge and dependable communication methods, telemedicine systems can transmit various information about the patients at home or, in general, far from the hospital, to remote medical centers. They enable doctors to track patients remotely by using a variety of patient data that may be used and exchanged. This paper's goal is to give an overview of the use of telemedicine systems in emergency situations, with a particular emphasis on the more recent systems developed during and after Covid-19 pandemic, and focused on video transfer technologies. These systems will be classified and described considering the different types of applications, the used communication technologies, video data sources, and eventual additional vital data. Finally, the paper outlines the possible directions of future evolutions.