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标题：Use of telemedicine in disaster and remote places
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作者：Sima Ajami ; Parisa Lamoochi
期刊名称：Journal of Education and Health Promotion
印刷版ISSN：2277-9531
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：26-26
DOI：10.4103/2277-9531.131886
出版社：Medknow Publications
摘要：One of the methods, especially those living in remote areas or have crashed and does not have access to specialists is telemedicine. Telemedicine describes the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients' health status and care. Travel and wait times between the initial consultations with the patient's own general practitioner and referral to specialist can be reduced and specialists have successfully provided remote triage and treatment consults of victims via the robot. The robot proved to be a useful means to extend resources and provide expert consulting if specialists were unable to physically be at the site. In fact, the telemedicine system is providing health care services for individuals who are not available because of geographical and environmental conditions. The aim of this study was to identify telemedicine applications in disaster, and proposed use of this technology in areas where the shortage of specialists in remote areas in disasters. This study was un-systematic (narrative) review. The literature was searched for using of telemedicine in disaster and remote places with the help of libraries, conference proceedings, data bank, and also search engines available at Google, Google scholar. In our searches, we employed the following keywords and their combinations: telemedicine, remote place, earthquake, disaster, war, and telecommunication in the searching areas of title, keyword, abstract, and full text. In this study, more than 85 articles and reports were collected and 26 of them were selected based on their relevancy. This literature review helps define the concept of "components and usages of the Telemedicine in disaster" as the new technology in the present age.
关键词：Earthquake; remote place; telecommunication; telemedicine