Haroon Sabrina, Lau Titus, Tan Gan Liang, Davenport Andrew
National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Department of General Medicine, Sengkang General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Apr 29;8:634203. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.634203. eCollection 2021.
Telemedicine has gained popularity during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Regular and timely physician review is an essential component of care for the maintenance of hemodialysis patients. While it is widely acknowledged that telemedicine cannot fully replace the role of physical review in this group of patients with organ failure, it can perhaps reduce the reliance on physical review or serve as a filter and triage in determining which patient requires actual physical review. The use of technology in any healthcare setting should always align with existing clinical workflow and protocols. We discuss the safety and quality aspects of this new concept applied to the satellite dialysis unit.
远程医疗在最近的新冠疫情期间已变得流行起来。定期且及时的医生评估是维持血液透析患者护理的重要组成部分。虽然人们普遍认为远程医疗无法完全取代对这组器官衰竭患者进行体格检查的作用，但它或许可以减少对体格检查的依赖，或在确定哪些患者需要实际的体格检查时起到筛选和分诊的作用。在任何医疗环境中使用技术都应始终与现有的临床工作流程和协议保持一致。我们讨论了应用于卫星透析单元的这一新概念的安全性和质量方面。
