Consultant in Neurology and Neurocritical Care, Division of Anaesthesia, Box 93, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
Curr Opin Neurol. 2021 Oct 1;34(5):721-726. doi: 10.1097/WCO.0000000000000977.
This paper reviews the clinical applications, technology, and evidence supporting the use of telemedicine devices and telehealth in neuromuscular disease.
The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted standard multidisciplinary care of patients with neuromuscular disease and created a need to adapt to remote care. Telemedicine applications were rapidly introduced and have rapidly proved an important tool in maintaining specialist care. This review presents the current data being gathered identifying the patients who benefit from telehealth applications, the appropriate type of telemedicine approach to specific conditions, the conditions needed to optimise telehealth approaches, and potential pitfalls and limitations in their use.
Telemedicine is an important tool in providing robust remote care for patients with neuromuscular disorders, but further investigation is needed to optimise applications.
本文综述了远程医疗设备和远程医疗在神经肌肉疾病中的临床应用、技术和支持使用的证据。
COVID-19 大流行中断了神经肌肉疾病患者的标准多学科护理,并需要适应远程护理。远程医疗应用程序迅速推出,并迅速成为维持专科护理的重要工具。本综述介绍了目前正在收集的识别从远程医疗应用中受益的患者、针对特定疾病的适当类型的远程医疗方法、优化远程医疗方法所需的条件以及在使用中可能出现的缺陷和限制的数据。
远程医疗是为神经肌肉疾病患者提供强大远程护理的重要工具,但需要进一步研究以优化应用。