Santos-Peyret A, Durón R M, Sebastián-Díaz M A, Crail-Meléndez D, Goméz-Ventura S, Briceño-González E, Rito Y, Martínez-Juárez I E
Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, México DF, México.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, México DF, México.
Rev Neurol. 2020 May 1;70(9):323-328. doi: 10.33588/rn.7009.2020173.
Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that affects around 50 million worldwide and there is an abundance of literature on the health care gap for this sector of the population. This gap will increase with the current pandemic due to COVID-19.
To evaluate the current availability of digital health tools for the care of people with epilepsy according to the world medical literature and their use during said pandemic.
We reviewed the publications in scientific journals in the last decade that had as their main topic the use of digital health tools or telemedicine focused on the care of patients with epilepsy, including 4 months after the national quarantines due to the appearance of the virus SARS-CoV-2. Seventeen publications were found on the use of telemedicine focused on epilepsy. The most widely used tools internationally are online platforms, followed by mobile applications, videoconferences, epileptic seizure capture systems, checklists, algorithms for understanding medical data, phone calls, tele-encephalography and text messages. None was published during the COVID-19 current pandemic.
Although there is little literature on the use of digital health tools focused on epilepsy, there are several that can be used to fight the attention gap, especially in this global pandemic by COVID-19 that forces quarantines of people and communities for long periods. It is necessary to remove barriers and facilitate patient access to these new information technologies.
癫痫是一种常见的慢性神经系统疾病，全球约有5000万人受其影响，关于这部分人群医疗保健差距的文献众多。由于2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19），当前的疫情将使这一差距加大。
根据世界医学文献评估目前用于癫痫患者护理的数字健康工具的可用性及其在上述疫情期间的使用情况。
我们回顾了过去十年科学期刊上以数字健康工具或远程医疗用于癫痫患者护理为主要主题的出版物，包括因严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）出现而实施全国隔离措施后的4个月。共找到17篇关于远程医疗用于癫痫的出版物。国际上使用最广泛的工具是在线平台，其次是移动应用程序、视频会议、癫痫发作捕捉系统、清单、医学数据解读算法、电话、远程脑电图和短信。在当前的COVID-19疫情期间没有相关出版物。
尽管关于专注于癫痫的数字健康工具使用的文献较少，但有几种工具可用于弥补关注差距，特别是在当前由COVID-19引发的全球疫情中，这种疫情迫使人们和社区长期隔离。有必要消除障碍，方便患者使用这些新信息技术。
