Since telecommunications leads to the development of a wide range of medical specialties, cardiovascular care is one of the areas in which remote visits provide a wide range of services to patients in this field. Telemedicine, known as telecardiology , seeks real-time access, remote diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease, including congestive heart failure, cardiac arrest, and arrhythmias.
It is also one of the ways to increase the adaptation rate for cardiac rehabilitation, a physically supervised care therapeutic function to improve cardiovascular health after a heart attack or other event that requires care.
Electrocardiography (ECG) is a useful diagnostic tool in the diagnosis and management of ischemic heart disease and cardiac arrhythmia, and its availability is common in primary care. Regular availability of ECGs at the primary care level can facilitate initial referrals to secondary care and reduce unnecessary face-to-face visits if necessary. Telecardiology has been used for more than a century in one form or another and has many uses. Recent advances in telecardiology offer an accurate, convenient, and cost-effective solution for ECG testing in primary care settings.
Telemedicine removes spatial and temporal barriers to rehabilitation visits, which is one of the many benefits for patients living in rural areas who are physically or physically unable to help. Using a remote visit system, patients can use any location to complete cardiac rehabilitation through video visits.
Telecardiology provides diagnostic support to GPs, allowing them to manage their patients more confidently. Although contemporary guidelines provide initial evaluation of patients with chest pain based on patient history and appropriate clinical examination, the ECG still plays an important role in primary care and is not only used as a screening tool but also as telecardiology. It has the potential to help GPs perform more complete clinical evaluations for heart patients.
Telecommunication devices for the telecardiology department are mobile-sized and usually work with a button. This device is essential for people living in remote areas. From a patient's point of view, it is easier and better to perform ECG tests at a private home or local general surgery, even though it is available in a hospital. These devices make it easier to access the diagnosis and management of heart disease.
Remote visits play a major role in cancer care
Online visits and rehabilitation, especially in the field of cardiology, can be useful for patients whose cardiac complications have developed as a side effect in the treatment of cancer. Telecardiology makes life easier for children with cardiovascular disease. Also, their parents can easily take care of their children at any time without disturbing their time and work situation, traveling long distances, etc.
Telecardiology allows you to save time, money and travel by creating a specialized ECG interpretation in primary care. Empowers physicians to have a powerful diagnostic tool to facilitate the management of heart patients in the community. Both physicians and patients benefit in terms of ease of access, speed of diagnosis, management efficiency, and resource freedom. To evaluate these findings on a larger scale, large randomized controlled trials and more performance data are needed. As a result, telecardiology could revolutionize the way different heart conditions are managed in primary care.
Source: ncbi and healthtechmagazine