Chang María de la P, Davancens Agustina, Rourich María C, Vincenti Juan M, Valencia Priscila, Guarriello María F, Costilla César M, Estol Conrado J
Unidad de ACV, Sanatorio Güemes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail:
Unidad de ACV, Sanatorio Güemes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Medicina (B Aires). 2021;81(3):415-420.
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in limited access of post-stroke patients to their usual medical follow-up and rehabilitation. To continue these activities, we adopted a technology that is free and has universal access. We remotely followed 32 patients after discharge from the stroke unit during the mandatory lock-down. This allowed to continue with medical controls, physical therapy and speech pathology treatments. All patients fully complied with medical treatment and self-monitoring of vascular risk factors. Early discontinuation of rehabilitation therapies was identified and immediately compensated with tele-rehabilitation. All expressed their willingness to continue with this treatment modality. This strategy was successful to effectively continue medical follow-up and rehabilitation supervision with the collaboration of families, is an accessible and low-cost technology that could be replicated and used in health institutions that treat neurovascular diseases.
新冠疫情导致中风患者难以像往常一样接受医疗随访和康复治疗。为了继续开展这些活动，我们采用了一种免费且人人都能使用的技术。在强制封锁期间，我们对32名从中风单元出院的患者进行了远程随访。这使得医疗检查、物理治疗和言语病理学治疗得以继续。所有患者都完全遵守了药物治疗以及血管危险因素的自我监测。我们发现了康复治疗的早期中断情况，并立即通过远程康复进行了补充。所有患者都表示愿意继续采用这种治疗方式。该策略在家庭的协作下成功有效地继续了医疗随访和康复监督，是一种可在治疗神经血管疾病的医疗机构中复制和使用的、易于获取且低成本的技术。
