Telemedicine in critical careProblems in design, implementation, and assessment
作者:
BETTY GRUNDY,
PAUL JONES,
ANN LOVITT,
期刊:
Critical Care Medicine
(OVID Available online 1982)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 7
页码: 471-475
ISSN:0090-3493
年代: 1982
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
We introduced telemedicine, i.e., telecommunications for delivery of health services, to alleviate scarcity and maldistribution of critical care services. For 18 months, we used interactive television to provide consultation with university-based critical care physicians for patients in the ICU of a 100-bed hospital. Telemedicine “visits” (1548) were made to 395 patients. Television consultation had greater clinical and educational impact than consultation using the telephone. Equipment was expensive but proved to be reliable and easy to use. Interactive television extended the availability of specialist expertise, but full exploitation of this technology for delivery of critical care services was not achieved. Extensive background research, currently underway at the University of Pittsburgh, is necessary before the next telemedicine demonstration.
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