Here’s a she – telemedicine. The correspondent “the Russian newspaper” has visited remote medical consulting.
the Center for telemedicine created on the basis of the Irkutsk regional clinical hospital six months ago, was more than required in a coronavirus epidemic. Thanks to him, patients from the provinces can consult with the most experienced experts of the relevant Federal center.
What is a man, first heard about the telemedicine centre? Most likely, something quite cosmic and ultra-modern. Actually, this is a small study, more reminiscent of the audience-workshop: tables, chairs, and instead of the Board – a huge monitor.
– Good day, Anna Ivanovna, – Yulia Bakhareva, head of the center, a colleague from the area. – All you ready? Did MSCT (multislice computed tomography – ed.)? Send pictures! Feedback in half an hour. A retreat.
Yuliya Aleksandrovna – the most experienced anesthesiologist and the doctor of Sciences. She can immediately assess how difficult the situation, what experts should be invited to attend a meeting and what research is to be carried out to the consultants were introductory to work effectively. It takes decisions in a few seconds, minutes spent on sending invitations to colleagues – and now in the office is getting cramped to the patient with community-acquired pneumonia from the area came from four doctors. On a large monitor deployed images with light in all projections, for small (which is not immediately and see) – medical history and any other documents. And began to quietly talk, to compare, marking something on his sheets.
In connection with the distribution of COVID-19 pneumonia aroused the suspicion of doctors, – says Yulia Bakhareva. – Number of complaints on this issue has increased. Every day five or six regional hospitals advise.
– not all CRB are specialists. Well, that embedded telecommunications, all images can be viewed, and if necessary, by video link and the patient to see, to communicate directly with the attending physician, – adds the doctor-pulmonologist regional hospital Olga Tagantseva.
because today’s patient Council have collected a second time. And if a week ago it was very difficult – there have been some quite serious respiratory failure to the pulmonologists were satisfied. Pneumonia was not Coveney, the patient went to the amendment.
– We are not limited to a single consultation and adjustment treatment – confirms the chief pulmonologist region, doctor of medical Sciences Irina Trofimenko. – Be sure to ask colleagues from other districts to provide data from control surveys, look how the condition of the patient. If tis obligatory assigned additional treatment.
In the center around the clock on duty Manager, who accepts and sistematizirovat information from CRH, – said Yulia Bakhareva in the pause between consultations. In urgent cases advice can be arranged for half an hour. We prepare information, if necessary, to solicit additional data, images, analyses, and quickly convened a Council of leading specialists of the hospital.
most Often, according to the head of centre and district hospital to seek advice on the management of patients with neurological, cardiac and renal profiles. Somewhere not enough specialists somewhere- the experience of the treatment of critically ill patients, and sometimes the necessary equipment.
During the existence of the telemedicine center in October 2019, has conducted more than 450 consultations. But on an average day in the regional hospital receives about 20 queries, and round-the-clock and without weekends.
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