Home Long-Term Oxygen Treatment in Italy

The Additional Value of Telemedicine
2005. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-88-470-0388-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 364 g

As an American, I recently began extending visits to friends in Italy by meeting families providing “agriturismo”. My Italian speaking wife Evi (Eveline Faure,MD, FCCP,a graduate of the Università Italiana per Stranieri,Perugia) made this p- sible. During one visit in 1994,we were sitting around the table in Pisa with friends who were fellow critical care physicians. They were remarking how specialists needed more patients. We told them that we were going south beyond Naples, a concept which they could not understand,considering the beauty of Tuscany. We had a marvelous time in southern Italy, meeting warm and welcoming people, surely one of the greatest resources of all Italy. While in Calabria, I noted there were so many people on the streets joyfully communicating on their cell phones. (This was before cellular technology became so popular in the USA). Evi commented how tele-communication had advanced in Italy; she remembered how it took three hours to make a phone call with a jetton only a few years before. Later,in a small town (Revello,Basilicata),we met a w- derful young family who told us how difficult it was to get medical care. Yes,they had good general physicians,but it was hard to reach specialists many kilometers away. At the time,we were staying on a farm with an elderly couple,who invited us to join them to share meals. During conversation, I learned that the farmer had chronic lung disease and required long-term oxygen. He,too,found it difficult to get the care he needed in rural Italy.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dal Negro, R W

Goldberg, A I

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Innere Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Telemedizin, e-Health
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Pneumologie, Atmung, Asthma

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Telemedicine in Respiratory Care.- Home Long-Term Oxygen Treatment (H-LTOT): Why, Where, and How.- From National to Regional Criteria for H-LTOT.- Systems for Oxygen Delivery.- The Interfaces.- Telemedicine and LTOT in Italy: a 20-Year Experience.- New Telemonitoring Technologies in Italy.- The Changing Role of Nursing in Telemetric LTOT at Home.- Home LTOT: Patient—Caregiver Compliance and Adhesion.- Complications in LTOT patients.- LTOT Outcomes: Patient’s and Doctor’s Perspectives.- Telemedicine for Home-Ventilated Patients.- Economic Evaluation of Treating Patients with Long-Term Oxygen Therapy with or without Telemetric Monitoring.- Continuing Quality Improvement in the Management of H-LTOT.