Telecardiology during the Covid-19 pandemic : past mistakes and future hopes

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Covid-19 has caused a striking global impact on public health services. The inevitable suspension of all scheduled visits without urgency and non-urgent hospitalizations has resulted in relevant modifications in our management of cardiac patients. Our goal should be to maintain high standards in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, reducing the risk of esposure to Covid-19 for patients and healthcare professionals. Our Division of Cardiology follows 300 patients in a Heart Failure Ambulatory and almost all of these, as CIEDs' carriers, are monitored by remote monitoring; in addition, we follow more than 2000 CIEDs' carriers using remote monitoring. The purpose of telemedicine, using telecommunications technology, must be to optimize the clinical management of heart failure patients at home, in order to improve their quality of life, reducing hospitalization and emergency department access, also promoting self-management. The evolution of technology has led to the development and refinement of telemedicine and remote monitoring and even more in pandemic times these methods are to be considered a cornerstone. So that telemedicine can really become a well-structured reality, the following are fundamental: the uniform recognition of a reimbursement for this type of medical service, the creation of an organizational model with an adequately structured team, a valid integration with the territorial reality.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

American journal of cardiovascular disease - 10(2020), 2 vom: 30., Seite 34-47

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

De Simone, Vincenzo [VerfasserIn]
Guarise, Paola [VerfasserIn]
Guardalben, Stefania [VerfasserIn]
Padovani, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Tondelli, Silvia [VerfasserIn]
Sandrini, Davide [VerfasserIn]
Visentin, Emanuela [VerfasserIn]
Zanotto, Gabriele [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

CIEDs
COVID-19
Heart failure
Journal Article
Remote monitoring
Review
Telemedicine

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 28.09.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312615892