Department of Signal Theory and Communications and Telematics Engineering, University of Valladolid, Paseo de Belén, 15, 47011, Valladolid, Spain.
Universidad Europea del Atlántico, C / Isabel Torres, 21, 39011, Santander, Spain.
J Med Syst. 2022 Dec 6;46(12):104. doi: 10.1007/s10916-022-01895-z.
The objective of this paper is to review and analyze the current state of telemedicine and ehealth in the field of vascular surgery.
This paper collects the relevant information obtained after reviewing the articles related to telemedicine in vascular surgery, published from 2012 to 2022 contained in scientific databases. In addition, the results obtained are statistically studied based on various factors, such as the year of publication or the search engine. In this way, we obtain a complete vision of the current state of telemedicine in the field of vascular surgery.
After performing this search and applying selection criteria, 29 articles were obtained for subsequent study and discussion, of which 20 were published in the second half of the decade, representing 70% of the results. In the analysis carried out according to the search criteria used, it can be seen that using the word telemedicine we obtained 69% of the articles while with the criteria mHealth and eHealth we only obtained 22% and 9% of the results, respectively. It can be seen that the filter with the most potential content articles was "vascular surgery AND telemedicine". In the analysis performed according to the search engine, it was observed that the Google Scholar database contains 93% of the articles found in the massive search and the relevant articles contained therein represent 52% of the total.
An upward trend has been observed in recent years, with a clear increase in the number of publications and much lower figures in the first years. One aspect to highlight is that 47.8% of the articles analyzed focus only on postoperative treatment, which may be due to the help provided by telemedicine in detecting surgical site infections by sending images and videos, this being one of the most common postoperative complications. The analyzed works show the importance of telemedicine in vascular surgery and identify possible future lines of research. In the analysis carried out on the origin of the selected relevant papers, an important interest of the US in this topic is demonstrated since more than 50% of the research contains authors from this country, it is also observed that there is no research from Spain, so this research would be an initial step to determine the weaknesses of telemedicine in this field of medicine and a good opportunity to open a research gap in this branch.
本文旨在回顾和分析血管外科学领域远程医疗和电子健康的现状。
本文通过回顾 2012 年至 2022 年期间科学数据库中收录的与血管外科学远程医疗相关的文章，收集了相关信息。此外，还根据出版年份或搜索引擎等各种因素对获得的结果进行了统计学研究。通过这种方式，我们获得了血管外科学领域远程医疗现状的全貌。
经过搜索并应用选择标准，获得了 29 篇后续研究和讨论的文章，其中 20 篇发表在该十年的后半期，占结果的 70%。根据使用的搜索标准进行分析，可以看出使用“远程医疗”一词获得了 69%的文章，而使用“移动医疗”和“电子健康”的标准仅获得了 22%和 9%的结果。可以看出，“血管外科学和远程医疗”的过滤器具有最有潜力的内容文章。根据搜索引擎进行分析，观察到 Google Scholar 数据库包含了大量搜索中找到的 93%的文章，其中包含的相关文章占总数的 52%。
近年来呈现出上升趋势，出版物数量明显增加，而早期的数量则低得多。需要强调的一个方面是，分析的文章中有 47.8%仅关注术后治疗，这可能是因为远程医疗在通过发送图像和视频检测手术部位感染方面提供了帮助，这是最常见的术后并发症之一。分析的作品表明了远程医疗在血管外科学中的重要性，并确定了可能的未来研究方向。在对所选相关论文的来源进行分析时，展示了美国在该主题上的重要兴趣，因为超过 50%的研究包含来自这个国家的作者，也观察到没有来自西班牙的研究，因此这项研究将是确定该医学领域远程医疗弱点的一个初步步骤，也是在该分支领域开辟研究空白的一个很好的机会。
