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Telemedicine in Critical Care
Critical care medicine is the specialty that cares for patients with acute life-threatening illnesses where intensivists look after all aspects of patient care. Nevertheless, shortage of physicians and nurses, the relationship between high costs and economic restrictions, and the fact that critical...
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Bentham Open
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682923/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19452034 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874306400903010010 |
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author | Murias, Gastón Sales, Bernat Garcia-Esquirol, Oscar Blanch, Lluis |
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description | Critical care medicine is the specialty that cares for patients with acute life-threatening illnesses where intensivists look after all aspects of patient care. Nevertheless, shortage of physicians and nurses, the relationship between high costs and economic restrictions, and the fact that critical care knowledge is only available at big hospitals puts the system on the edge. In this scenario, telemedicine might provide solutions to improve availability of critical care knowledge where the patient is located, improve relationship between attendants in different institutions and education material for future specialist training. Current information technologies and networking capabilities should be exploited to improve intensivist coverage, advanced alarm systems and to have large critical care databases of critical care signals. |
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spelling | pubmed-26829232009-05-18 Telemedicine in Critical Care Murias, Gastón Sales, Bernat Garcia-Esquirol, Oscar Blanch, Lluis Open Respir Med J Article Critical care medicine is the specialty that cares for patients with acute life-threatening illnesses where intensivists look after all aspects of patient care. Nevertheless, shortage of physicians and nurses, the relationship between high costs and economic restrictions, and the fact that critical care knowledge is only available at big hospitals puts the system on the edge. In this scenario, telemedicine might provide solutions to improve availability of critical care knowledge where the patient is located, improve relationship between attendants in different institutions and education material for future specialist training. Current information technologies and networking capabilities should be exploited to improve intensivist coverage, advanced alarm systems and to have large critical care databases of critical care signals. Bentham Open 2009-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2682923/ /pubmed/19452034 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874306400903010010 Text en © Murias et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article Murias, Gastón Sales, Bernat Garcia-Esquirol, Oscar Blanch, Lluis Telemedicine in Critical Care |
title | Telemedicine in Critical Care |
title_full | Telemedicine in Critical Care |
title_fullStr | Telemedicine in Critical Care |
title_full_unstemmed | Telemedicine in Critical Care |
title_short | Telemedicine in Critical Care |
title_sort | telemedicine in critical care |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682923/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19452034 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874306400903010010 |
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