Telemedicine during coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: a paradigm shift in cardiovascular care
Cardiovascular care |Coronavirus disease-19 |Pandemic |Telemedicine
; 2021(Revista Colombiana de Cardiologia)
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in English
| WHO COVID | ID: covidwho-1687786
ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Severe acute respiratory syndrome due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has overwhelmingly affected the health-care systems globally. Delivering cardiovascular care has become unusually difficult both for caregivers and physicians in these unprecedented times.Methods:
We briefly reviewed how cardiac care can be delivered to patients while limiting the exposure of both patients and healthcare workers through telemedicine services. We made a comparison at our institute of outpatient services through routine and telemedicine visits.Results:
We found that telemedicine can be an equally effective alternative cardiac care during the times of pandemic with no significant difference in patients profile admitted through tele-medicine services.Conclusions:
We concluded that telemedicine can prove to be an effective tool in delivering cardiac care by limiting exposure of both patients and physicians with better triage of cardiac patients in the situation of COVID-19 pandemic and may complement to regular cardiac care in routine times. © 2020 Sociedad Colombiana de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular.
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English
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Cardiovascular care |Coronavirus disease-19 |Pandemic |Telemedicine
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