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Remote crash videos may speed treatment of victims
SYRACUSE - Traffic surveillance cameras set up along two of Syracuse's busiest highways may help doctors save lives.
The cameras will provide emergency room doctors at Upstate Hospital with real-time views of crash scenes and firsthand information they hope will help them treat accident victims better and more quickly, said Dr. John McCabe, a professor and chairman of the hospital's Department of Emergency Medicine.
A long-term study of the cameras' use is being funded by noted economist Alfred Kahn, who survived a car crash in 2003 and spent weeks recovering from his injuries at Upstate, which is part of the State University of New York's Upstate Medical University.
“We have a theoretic idea that seems to make good sense on face value. We need to see if it can work in a real emergency room,” McCabe said.
The road surveillance will be provided by more than two dozen closed-circuit video cameras installed by the state Department of Transportation covering 32 miles of Interstates 81 and 690, the main traffic corridors through Syracuse. Each camera has a line-of-sight of up to three or four miles, said Jay Scott, an Upstate paramedic and project manager.
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