Ambulance workers in Japan began to be given smart glasses for quick communication with clinics

2022: Making Smart Glasses

In mid-August 2022, Vuzix Corporation announced the start of the use of smart glasses M400 emergency and emergency medical workers in Japan. The device provides two-way audio and video communication between the clinic and the team on the road. The pilot project involves Juntendo University, Shizuoka Hospital and advanced reality technology provider AVR Japan Co.

Smart glasses are equipped with two-way audio and video communication, which allows real-time transmission of vital parameters, electrocardiography readings and changes in the patient's visual condition to doctors and nurses in the hospital.

Vuzix smart glasses M400

The aim of the trial is to ensure the early treatment of seriously ill patients being taken to hospital, improve outcomes and increase the number of lives saved. Information about a patient's emergency condition is usually transmitted by mobile phone between ambulance staff and doctors at the hospital. In addition, thanks to the use of smart glasses, doctors will be able to better instruct rescuers by providing accurate emergency care along the way, for example, blood transfusions, surgery, thrombolytic therapy and intravascular treatment in time-critical conditions.

Our glasses are light, comfortable and completely wireless, making them ideal for use alongside other head-mounted equipment that emergency medical professionals have to wear. Sharing this information in real time with the hospital will allow various departments of the hospital to conduct examinations, make diagnoses and make preliminary treatment decisions even before the patient arrives, said Vuzix President and CEO Paul Travers.

Vuzix plans to expand testing in the country to include more ambulances to explore their effectiveness for emergency medical care, according to a press release.^[1]

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