Paruthi Shalini
Sleep Medicine and Research Center, St. Luke's Hospital, 232 South Woods Mill Road, Chesterfield, MO 63017, USA; Pediatrics, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
Sleep Med Clin. 2020 Sep;15(3S):e1-e7. doi: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2020.07.003. Epub 2020 Sep 3.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, few pediatric sleep medicine clinicians routinely engaged in telemedicine visits because thorough examinations were difficult to perform; there was lack of consistent reimbursement; and many clinicians were busy with their in-office practices. This article reviews how telemedicine has been explored in pediatric sleep medicine prior to the pandemic, current applications of telemedicine, challenges, and reimagining pediatric sleep within the realm of telemedicine.
在新冠疫情大流行之前,很少有儿科睡眠医学临床医生常规开展远程医疗问诊,因为全面检查难以进行;缺乏统一的报销政策;而且许多临床医生忙于他们的门诊业务。本文回顾了在疫情大流行之前儿科睡眠医学中对远程医疗的探索情况、远程医疗的当前应用、面临的挑战以及在远程医疗领域对儿科睡眠的重新构想。