Institute of Neurology, Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Department of Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation, San Raffaele Pisana IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Neurol Sci. 2021 Mar;42(3):805-809. doi: 10.1007/s10072-020-04993-3. Epub 2021 Jan 12.
The pandemic has implemented the need for new digital technologies as useful tools during the emergency and the long recovery phase that will follow. SARS-CoV-2 has strongly impacted stroke care with significant contraction in a number of patients treated.
This mini-review is an initiative of the "Digital Technologies, Web and Social Media Study Group" of the Italian Society of Neurology and briefly discusses digital tools for managing the acute phase and the rehabilitation after stroke, even considering the new apps that will improve the process of remote monitoring of patients after discharge at home.
Telemedicine and digital technologies could play a role in each of the three stroke-belt stages: hyperacute treatment and reperfusion, acute care, etiological classification and secondary prevention and rehabilitation.
The global emergency represented by the COVID-19 pandemic can be the stimulus to accelerate the digitalization process in the field of stroke for the use of new methods on a large scale.
疫情需要新的数字技术作为紧急情况下和随后的长期恢复阶段的有用工具。SARS-CoV-2 对卒中治疗产生了重大影响,导致大量接受治疗的患者病情显著恶化。
这篇小型综述是意大利神经病学学会“数字技术、网络和社交媒体研究小组”的一项倡议,简要讨论了用于管理卒中急性期和康复期的数字工具,甚至考虑了将改善患者出院后在家远程监测流程的新应用程序。
远程医疗和数字技术可以在卒中三阶段中发挥作用:超急性期治疗和再灌注、急性期治疗、病因分类和二级预防及康复。
COVID-19 大流行这一全球性紧急情况可能会刺激卒中领域加快数字化进程,以便大规模应用新方法。