• Critical care clinics · Oct 2000

    Review

    ICU telemedicine. Organization and communication.

    • M J Breslow.
    • IC-USA, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
    • Crit Care Clin. 2000 Oct 1; 16 (4): 707-22, x-xi.

    AbstractTelemedicine offers off-site physicians the ability to care for patients by providing them with audio-video links and access to relevant clinical data. Traditionally, this care modality has been used to overcome geographic barriers by bringing needed expertise to patients in remote locations. The same technology can be used to bring intensivist expertise to ICU patients. A recent clinical trial has confirmed the efficacy of remote ICU care, with decreases in mortality, complications, and costs that are analogous to those observed with on-site intensivists. If a single, intensivist-led care team can provide round-the-clock, proactive care to patients in multiple ICUs simultaneously, this care modality can be used to overcome current deficiencies in ICU care related to inadequate intensivist availability.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…