Search Tag: tele-ICU
How the Pandemic Changed Telemedicine
2021 22 Feb
An overview of the large-scale transition to telemedicine at Mayo Clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it happened in a matter of days and represented one of the most rapid transformations of healthcare in history. Impact of the Pandemic on Society The 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected nearly all aspects... Read more
Tele-ICU leads to overall reduction in ICU mortality
2019 19 Mar
A new systematic review and meta-analysis has found that implementation of tele-ICU services was associated with an overall reduction in ICU mortality. Furthermore, in subgroup analysis, the pooled odds ratio for ICU mortality suggests a significant benefit in publications with high baseline observed to predicted (O/P) mortality ratios but not... Read more
Telemedicine is the Future
2016 27 Sep
Professor Gernot Marx is Director of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Intermediate Care, University Hospital Aachen, and Professor of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. Dr. Marx is a member of the Intensive Care Medicine Scientific Subcommittee of the European Society... Read more
Social Media Enabling Tele-ICU Services in Syria
2016 15 Feb
Free social media apps, such as WhatsApp and Viber, have enabled U.S. clinicians to provide tele-ICU services to critical care nurses in Syria. “Social media applications that many people in the West regard as something frivolous that teenagers use can be easily adapted for creating a life-saving international network that can deliver care where it... Read more
Tele-ICUs: Nurses' Views
2016 21 Jan
In the U.S., results of a national survey show that telemedicine can improve ICU patient care. More than 75 percent of tele-ICU nurses responding to the survey said that telemedicine offers an opportunity to improve patient care and that it is useful in their job, according to the results published in the American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC) .... Read more
Telemedicine Guidelines to Address ICU and Patient Safety
2014 15 May
Telemedicine still surrounded by confusion, industry organisations aim to clarify matters The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the American Telemedicine Association have drafted policies and guidelines aimed at clarifying the confusion which currently surrounds telemedicine. This demonstrates the challenge many healthcare providers... Read more
Best Practices Established for Expanding Tele-ICUs Implementation
2013 20 Nov
As stated in a recently published report by the national health policy institute NEHI entitled ‘Emerging Best Practices for Tele-ICU Care Nationally’, the use of tele-medicine in intensive care units is about to undergo significant transformation with emerging best practices driving scalability, diversity and competition and providing valuable precedents... Read more