Telemedicine : A cornerstone of healthcare assistance during the SARS-Cov2 pandemic outbreak but also a great opportunity for the near future

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At the end of 2019, Wuhan, China, experienced an outbreak of a novel coronavirus. The SARS-CoV2 epidemiologic burden was constantly evolving, with numbers of infected persons, hospital admissions and deaths growing near exponentially. The pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 worldwide caught the health care systems in every country by storm and without a proper defense mechanism to cope and control such a pandemic, causing an overwhelming burden of illnesses that stressed the Health System capacity. In this context, telemedicine has been promoted and scaled up to reduce the risk of transmission. During the "lockdown", the AOU "Federico II" was forced to create peculiar pathways to ensure the safety of the patients and medical staff, and to keep an appropriate medical assistance, therefore it was introduced the telemedicine, wherever possible, by modifying the Information Technology (IT) related to the waiting times, rescheduling all booked visits and identifying several outpatient clinics suitable for telemedicine activities. In this paper the Authors reports their own experience with Telemedicine.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

Smart health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 26(2022) vom: 18. Dez., Seite 100324

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tartaglia, Edoardo [VerfasserIn]
Vozzella, Emilia Anna [VerfasserIn]
Iervolino, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Egidio, Rosanna [VerfasserIn]
Buonocore, Gaetano [VerfasserIn]
Perrone, Antonietta [VerfasserIn]
Toscano, Guglielmo [VerfasserIn]
Tremante, Raffaele [VerfasserIn]
Cesaro, Francesca [VerfasserIn]
Sommella, Vincenzo [VerfasserIn]
Magri, Paola [VerfasserIn]
Iodice, Lanfranco [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ACE2, Angiotensin-converting enzyme
AOU, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria (Teaching Hospital)
ARDS, Acute respiratory distress syndrome
COVID-19
COVID-19, CoronaVirus Disease 19
CRS, Cytokine release syndrome
Coronavirus
HM, Health Management
Healthcare assistance.
IT, Information Technology
Journal Article
MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
SARS-CoV2
TM, Telemedicine
Telemedicine
WHO, World Health Organization

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 22.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.smhl.2022.100324

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM346753317