Telemedicine and Neurological Practice in the COVID-19 Era

Ganapathy, Krishnan

doi:10.4103/0028-3886.288994

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“…Telehealth can be extremely useful in managing patients with chronic neurological disease, especially those on immunosuppressant drugs. Drug compliance and disease management are critical means of alleviating the severity of infection in these patients [62]. Telemedicine not only eliminates nonessential face-to-face experiences and possible disease transmission during this pandemic but often offers quicker access to specialist care, reduces the cost of patient travel, and is much more convenient for both patients and caregivers [63].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Also, rather than suggesting patients and caregivers maintain a stockpile in their homes that may lead to unforeseen consequences, particularly in patients with dementia who are unreliable when taking prescribed medications, physicians can prescribe additional medicines. Therefore, further consideration should be given to introducing and implementing telemedicine [61,62].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Chronic neurological diseases and COVID-19: Associations and considerations

Meshkat

Salimi

Joshaghanian

et al. 2020

Translational Neuroscience

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The 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic, severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV-2 (COVID-19), has been a worldwide urgent public health threat, resulting in six-hundred seventy thousand deaths to date. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a series of public health challenges. One such challenge is the management of diseases such as chronic neurological diseases during an epidemic event. COVID-19 affects all kinds of people, including older people with chronic underlying diseases, who are particularly at risk of severe infection or even death. Chronic neurological diseases such as epilepsy, dementia, Parkinson’s disease (PD), and multiple sclerosis (MS) are frequently associated with comorbidities; thus, these patients are in the high-risk category. Therefore, in this article, we review associations and challenges the people with epilepsy, dementia, PD, and MS faces during the COVID-19 pandemic and suggest approaches to provide consensus recommendations on how to provide the best possible care.

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Section: Telemedicine and Covid-19mentioning

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Chronic neurological diseases and COVID-19: Associations and considerations

Meshkat

Salimi

Joshaghanian

et al. 2020

Translational Neuroscience

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“…21 Telemedicine deploys customized hardware and software, medical devices and telecommunication technologies. 22 Many such resources are open-sourced and can be affordable to implement. They can be used to take histories, physically examine patients, take investigations, and make diagnoses despite physicians and patients being physically apart.…”

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“…24 Meet. 25 Despite this, fundings for a "telecommunications system" or multimedia communications equipment, which include audio and video equipment that allow for two-way, live communication between the patient and physician, 22 remains an issue.…”

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COVID–19 and Gaza: The Ideal Time to Establish a Medical Reserves of Public Health Preventive Medicine Specialists

Mahayosnand¹,

Sabra²,

Sabra³

2020

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This paper serves as a policy recommendation to develop a collaborative public–private interdisciplinary healthcare system known as the Gazan Medical Reserve Corps (Reserves) during the COVID–19 pandemic. Due to the high concentration of educated unemployed in Gaza, the Reserves would draw from recent medical school graduates and unemployed physicians. Although initial funds must be awarded by the government and international community to launch the Reserves, the proposed four evidence–based divisions of the Reserves are designed to make a self-sustaining and financially–sound entity. Our literature review demonstrates that the United Nations, various interest groups, and numerous researchers recommend the work of each of the proposed divisions as necessary aspects of a long–term health sector. The Reserves would work with humanitarian organizations, such as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and International Medical Corps (IMC), in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO). It is a goal to ultimately transition Gaza out of the need for short–term aid and assistance. The Reserves would also work alongside the local health entities and facilities already present inGaza, such as the medical schools, hospitals, and clinics.

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“…Telemedicine “in the Internet age” has found increasing use and can be applied in various medical sectors, especially in times of health emergency, such that we are experiencing during COVID-19 pandemia. In a recent paper [ 1 ], it reported that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) have recommended use of telemedicine during the current pandemic. With acute shortage of neurologists and neurosurgeons, it becomes more difficult to provide neurological care to those who need it the most, particularly with travel restrictions.…”

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The Italian technical/administrative recommendations for telemedicine in clinical neurophysiology

Stipa¹,

Gabbrielli

Rabbito

et al. 2020

Neurol Sci

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Recent advances in technology, information technology, Internet networks, and, more recently, fiber optics in industrialized countries allow the exchange of a huge amount of data, in real time, across the globe. The acquisition of increasingly sophisticated technologies has made it possible to develop telemedicine, by which the specialist’s evaluation can be carried out on the patient even remotely. In Italy, this very useful tool, although possible from a technological and information technology point of view, has not been developed because of the lack of clear and univocal rules and of major administrative obstacles related to the Italian Public Health System. To promote telemedicine implementation in Italy, the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology and the Italian Society of Telemedicine together with the National Centre for Telemedicine and New Assistive Technologies of the Italian Higher Institute of Health prepared these inter-society recommendations. Because of potential forensic value of these recommendations, they were prepared considering the current regulations and the General Data Protection Regulation and will provide the basis for a Consensus Conference planned to discuss and prepare National Telemedicine Guidelines.

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Telemedicine and Neurological Practice in the COVID-19 Era

Cited by 50 publications

References 26 publications

Chronic neurological diseases and COVID-19: Associations and considerations

Chronic neurological diseases and COVID-19: Associations and considerations

COVID–19 and Gaza: The Ideal Time to Establish a Medical Reserves of Public Health Preventive Medicine Specialists

The Italian technical/administrative recommendations for telemedicine in clinical neurophysiology

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