Telemedicína a COVID-19 - skúsenosti Kliniky pneumológie a ftizeológie UNM a JLF UK Martin

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Žatkuliak, Peter
Kocan, Ivan
Žatkuliaková, Veronika

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Mark

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges to all industries, but especially to healthcare. The fully loaded hospital system needed to be relieved, and telemedicine gave a helping hand. The mentioned article deals with the idea and experience with the creation of an application aimed at monitoring COVID-19 positive patients whose health condition did not require hospitalization, but it was appropriate to monitor them. At regular intervals, the patient was asked to complete a test with a set of test questions about his health condition regarding to COVID symptoms. The result of the test guided the patient to the next process and the doctor about the patient's current health state. 141 patients used the application in the period from January 2021 to January 2022, of which 15 had to be subsequently hospitalized due to deterioration of their health condition. The use of the application brought several advantages: from patient point of view in terms of his comfort in the home environment, and also for healthcare privider by saving hospital beds for patients who required urgent medical assistance. By changing the test questions, the mobile application can be used as a means of telemedicine for monitoring various diseases.
Pandémia COVID-19 priniesla nové výzvy všetkým odvetviam, no najmä zdravotníctvu. Naplno vyťažený nemocničný systém potreboval odľahčiť a pomocnú ruku podala práve telemedicína. Uvedený článok sa zaoberá nápadom a skúsenosťami s tvorbou aplikácie zameranej na monitorovanie COVID-19 pozitívnych pacientov, ktorých zdravotný stav si nevyžadoval hospitalizáciu, ale bol dôvod na ich monitorovanie. Pacient bol v pravidelných časových intervaloch vyzvaný k vyplneniu testu so sadou testovacích otázok o svojom zdravotnom stave v súvislosti s príznakmi COVID ochorenia. Výsledok testu navigoval pacienta o ďalšom postupe a lekára o aktuálnom zdravotnom stave pacienta. Aplikáciu v období od januára 2021 do januára 2022 využilo 141 pacientov, z toho 15 muselo byť pre zhoršenie stavu následne hospitalizovaných. Použitie aplikácie prinieslo viacero výhod či už z pohľadu pacienta a jeho komfortu v domácom prostredí, ale i šetrenia lôžok pre pacientov, ktorí si vyžadovali neodkladnú lekársku pomoc. Zmenou testovacích otázok je možné mobilnú aplikáciu využiť ako prostriedok telemedicíny pri monitorovaní rôznych ochorení.

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