INVESTIGADORES
DI PERSIA Leandro Ezequiel
artículos
Título:
Aviation medicine: challenges for telemedicine
Autor/es:
FERRER ROCA, OLGA; DÍAZ DE LEÓN, R; J DE LATORRE, F; SUAREZ DELGADO, M; DI PERSIA, LEANDRO EZEQUIEL; M CORDO,
Revista:
JOURNAL OF TELEMEDICINE AND TELECARE
Editorial:
ROYAL SOC MEDICINE PRESS LTD
Referencias:
Lugar: LONDRES; Año: 2002 vol. 8 p. 1 - 4
ISSN:
1357-633X
Resumen:
The number and seriousness of medical problems on passenger-carrying aircraft in flight are increasing. Medical incidents occur at a rate of approximately 10?50 per million passengers carried. Medical equipment carried on commercial aircraft is limited to three items: a first-aid kit, an emergency medical kit and sometimes an automatic external defibrillator. Telephone medicine, a lower level of telemedicine support, is well established for commercial air operations. The availability of satellite telecommunications on passenger-carrying aircraft permits more sophisticated forms of telemedicine. Recent telemedicine experiments have involved the transmission of three-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs), heart rate, blood pressure, arterial oxygen saturation, end-tidal CO2, respiratory rate, body temperature and realtime video. The challenge is to demonstrate that such techniques are practicable, improve patient outcomes and are cost-effective.
