“Dispatcher, Can You Help Me? A Woman Is Giving Birth”. A Pilot Study of Remote Video Assistance with Smart Glasses Aranda García, Silvia San Román Mata, Silvia Technology Wearable Telemedicine Midwifery Natural childbirth Lifeguard Smart glasses Emergencies Smart glasses (SG) could be a breakthrough in emergency situations, so the aim of this work was to assess the potential benefits of teleassistance with smart glasses (SG) from a midwife to a lifeguard in a simulated, unplanned, out-of-hospital birth (OHB). Thirty-eight lifeguards were randomized into SG and control (CG) groups. All participants were required to act in a simulated imminent childbirth with a maternal–fetal simulator (PROMPT Flex, Laerdal, Norway). The CG acted autonomously, while the SG group was video-assisted by a midwife through SG (Vuzix Blade, New York, NY, USA). The video assistance was based on the OHB protocol, speaking and receiving images on the SG. The performance time, compliance with the protocol steps, and perceived performance with the SG were evaluated. The midwife’s video assistance with SG allowed 35% of the SG participants to perform the complete OHB protocol. No CG participant was able to perform it (p = 0.005). All OHB protocol variables were significantly better in the SG group than in the CG (p < 0.05). Telemedicine through video assistance with SG is feasible so that a lifeguard with no knowledge of childbirth care can act according to the recommendations in a simulated, unplanned, uncomplicated OHB. Communication with the midwife by speaking and sending images to the SG is perceived as an important benefit to the performance. 2023-01-31T11:08:48Z 2023-01-31T11:08:48Z 2022-12-30 journal article Aranda-García, S... [et al.]. “Dispatcher, Can You Help Me? AWoman Is Giving Birth”. A Pilot Study of Remote Video Assistance with Smart Glasses. Sensors 2023, 23, 409. [https://doi.org/10.3390/s23010409] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/79472 10.3390/s23010409 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI