title: Disaster medicine through Google Glass.
abstract: Nontechnical skills can make a difference in the management of disasters and mass casualty incidents and any tool helping providers in action might improve their ability to respond to such events. Google Glass, released by Google as a new personal communication device, could play a role in this field. We recently tested Google Glass during a full-scale exercise to perform visually guided augmented-reality Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment triage using a custom-made application and to identify casualties and collect georeferenced notes, photos, and videos to be incorporated into the debriefing. Despite some limitations (battery life and privacy concerns), Glass is a promising technology both for telemedicine applications and augmented-reality disaster response support to increase operators' performance, helping them to make better choices on the field; to optimize timings; and finally represents an excellent option to take professional education to a higher level.
authors.affiliation: Research Center in Emergency and Disaster Medicine and Computer Science applied to Medical Practice (CRIMEDIM), Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carenzo
authors.forename: Federico Lorenzo
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Barra
authors.forename: Pier Luigi
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Ingrassia
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Colombo
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Della Corte
mesh_terms: D054597:Disaster Medicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005139:Eyeglasses; D006801:Humans; D054527:Mass Casualty Incidents; D000066908:Simulation Training; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D059015:Wireless Technology