Ferrer-Roca O, Díaz De León R D, de Latorre F J, Suárez-Delgado M, Di Persia L, Cordo M
Department of Anatomía Patológica, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands.
J Telemed Telecare. 2002;8(1):1-4. doi: 10.1258/1357633021937352.
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.
飞行中载客飞机上医疗问题的数量和严重程度正在增加。医疗事件的发生率约为每百万乘客中有10 - 50起。商用飞机上携带的医疗设备仅限于三项：急救箱、应急医疗箱，有时还有自动体外除颤器。电话医疗作为一种较低水平的远程医疗支持，在商业航空运营中已得到广泛应用。载客飞机上卫星通信的可用性使得更复杂的远程医疗形式成为可能。最近的远程医疗实验涉及传输三导联心电图（ECG）、心率、血压、动脉血氧饱和度、呼气末二氧化碳、呼吸频率、体温和实时视频。挑战在于证明这些技术是可行的，能改善患者预后且具有成本效益。
