TELEMEDICINE
A new way to treat
Vital issue, the remote medical diagnosis is used by the University Hospital of Dijon and the services of hospital emergency admissions Burgundy. After cardiology, it is the neurological emergencies that are the subject of a new application, called "neuro emergencies."
«Urgences neuro», une nouvelle application de télémédecine
© photo credit: Regional Council of Burgundy
Completed slow remote diagnostics by mailing videocassettes experienced by the cardiologist in the first experiments of e-medicine. Today, the regional broadband network Clony ensures rapid transmission of medical images, allowing to consider a generalization of remote diagnostics.
Telediagnosis 24 hours over 24
Under the leadership of former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Dijon, Professor Maurice Giroud, a network of neurological emergencies could be set up with eleven hospitals growlers, half of which has no neurologist.
The principle of diagnosis is simple: the patient received the local emergency department is reviewed by an internal, guided in his action by a professor of neurology at the University Hospital of Dijon. CT images and MRI that performs real-time are sent to Dijon for diagnostic and therapeutic advice. The service is available round the clock, 365 days a 365.
Positive results
The Regional Council supported this application, knowing that it participates in providing all the Burgundians the same quality of medical care, regardless of place of residence. This diagnosis, the 11 operational emergency services since January 2005, Transport helicopter avoids unnecessary and should reduce the hospital mortality of patients suffering a stroke. Judged very positively by the UHC hospitals and Burgundy, this application of e-medicine should be gradually extended to other types of emergencies: heart attack, burns, etc..
- Article du 25/01/2006 16:57, modifié le 02/02/2012 14:15 -