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Telemedicine in cardiovascular surgery during COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review and our experience
OBJECTIVE: The SAR‐COV‐2 pandemic has had an unprecedented effect on the UK's healthcare systems. To reduce spread of the virus, elective treatments and surgeries have been postponed or canceled. There has been a rise in the use of telemedicine (TM) as an alternative way to carry outpatient con...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7460963/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32881081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocs.14933 |
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author | Ajibade, Ayomikun Younas, Hiba Pullan, Mark Harky, Amer |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The SAR‐COV‐2 pandemic has had an unprecedented effect on the UK's healthcare systems. To reduce spread of the virus, elective treatments and surgeries have been postponed or canceled. There has been a rise in the use of telemedicine (TM) as an alternative way to carry outpatient consultations. This systematic review aims to evaluate the extent to which TM may be able to support cardiac and vascular surgery patients in the COVID‐19 era. METHODS: We looked into how TM can support the management of patients via triaging, preoperative, and postoperative care. Evaluations targeted the clinical effectiveness of common TM methods and the feasibility of applying those methods in the UK during this pandemic. RESULTS: Several studies have published their evidence on the benefit of TM and its benefit during COVID‐19, the data related to cardiovascular surgery and how this will impact future practice of this speciality is emerging and yet larger studies with appropriate timing of outcomes to be published. CONCLUSION: Overall, the use of virtual consultations and remote monitoring is feasible and best placed to support these patients via triaging and postoperative monitoring. However, TM can be limited by the need of sophisticated technological requirement and patients’ educational and know‐how computer literacy level. |
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spelling | pubmed-74609632020-09-02 Telemedicine in cardiovascular surgery during COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review and our experience Ajibade, Ayomikun Younas, Hiba Pullan, Mark Harky, Amer J Card Surg Review Articles OBJECTIVE: The SAR‐COV‐2 pandemic has had an unprecedented effect on the UK's healthcare systems. To reduce spread of the virus, elective treatments and surgeries have been postponed or canceled. There has been a rise in the use of telemedicine (TM) as an alternative way to carry outpatient consultations. This systematic review aims to evaluate the extent to which TM may be able to support cardiac and vascular surgery patients in the COVID‐19 era. METHODS: We looked into how TM can support the management of patients via triaging, preoperative, and postoperative care. Evaluations targeted the clinical effectiveness of common TM methods and the feasibility of applying those methods in the UK during this pandemic. RESULTS: Several studies have published their evidence on the benefit of TM and its benefit during COVID‐19, the data related to cardiovascular surgery and how this will impact future practice of this speciality is emerging and yet larger studies with appropriate timing of outcomes to be published. CONCLUSION: Overall, the use of virtual consultations and remote monitoring is feasible and best placed to support these patients via triaging and postoperative monitoring. However, TM can be limited by the need of sophisticated technological requirement and patients’ educational and know‐how computer literacy level. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-08-16 2020-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7460963/ /pubmed/32881081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocs.14933 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Journal of Cardiac Surgery published by Wiley Periodicals LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of thehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Articles Ajibade, Ayomikun Younas, Hiba Pullan, Mark Harky, Amer Telemedicine in cardiovascular surgery during COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review and our experience |
title | Telemedicine in cardiovascular surgery during COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review and our experience |
title_full | Telemedicine in cardiovascular surgery during COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review and our experience |
title_fullStr | Telemedicine in cardiovascular surgery during COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review and our experience |
title_full_unstemmed | Telemedicine in cardiovascular surgery during COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review and our experience |
title_short | Telemedicine in cardiovascular surgery during COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review and our experience |
title_sort | telemedicine in cardiovascular surgery during covid‐19 pandemic: a systematic review and our experience |
topic | Review Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7460963/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32881081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocs.14933 |
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