The Telecardiology Revolution: From Emergency Management to Daily Clinical Practice

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J Clin Med. 2022 Mar 30;11(7):1920. doi: 10.3390/jcm11071920.

ABSTRACT

AIMS: Telecardiology is without doubt one of the most widespread purposes of telemedicine. We aimed to report the design and improvement of a telecardiology system within the sanitary district of Cosenza, one of many largest in Italy, with a posh orography, and healthcare reorganization wants, for the administration of the emergency community and each day scientific apply.

METHODS: Our telecardiology community connects 8 hospitals, 9 first help facilities, 20 native 118-EMS stations, 1 helicopter station, 8 hospital emergency departments, 59 hospital departments, and three catheterization laboratories. All information are centralized on a devoted server, accessible from any location for real-time evaluation. The high quality, supply, and timing of the electrocardiograms transmitted had been evaluated.

RESULTS: From October 2015 to December 2019, a complete of 389,970 ECGs had been transmitted. The high quality of ECGs was optimum in 52%, acceptable in 42%, and poor in 6% of the circumstances. The variety of poor-quality ECGs was solely 3% within the final 2 years. Out of the whole, 145,097 (37.2%) had been transmitted from the emergency departments and 5318 (1.4%) from the 118-EMS. Of curiosity, a large a part of the ECG was associated to routine scientific apply, comprising 110,556 (28.3%) from the cardiology division and 79,256 (20.3%) from different noncardiovascular departments. Finally, the common reporting time was considerably decreased in contrast to reporting occasions with no telecardiology system (5-10 vs. 45-90 min).

CONCLUSION: Our telecardiology system offers environment friendly cardiology help for every type, settings, and phases of cardiovascular illnesses.

PMID:35407529 | DOI:10.3390/jcm11071920



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