EMERGENCY FACILITY VIDEO-CONFERENCING SYSTEM

摘要

A medical video-conferencing and treatment system (10), having a central video--conferencing stations (12) and one or more remote video-conferencing stations (32, 34) and a communications link (30) establishing video-conferencing communication therebetween. A central video monitor (16) and audio system (20) is located at the central video--conferencing stations (12), and a controller unit (26) is coupled with the communications link. The remote video-conferencing stations (32, 34) each have a mobile emergency center cart (40) including a remote video monitor and audio system and a video- conferencing camera (60) controlled by the controller unit (26) via the communications link and capable of responding to control signals of the controller unit (26) for panning and zoom movement of the video-conference camera (62) by a medical practitioner located at the central video--conferencing station (12). The arrangement enables the medical practitioner to observe and to diagnose the condition of the patient and direct the medical personnel of the selected video-conferencing station to provide treatment of the patient.