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TeleICU will Support Remote and Primary Care Hospitals
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Article by National Biocomputation Center with Collaboration with Yale University.
Due to a significant shortage of physicians trained as Intensive Care Unit specialists, hospitals located in rural areas and primary care hospitals in general often do not have personnel capable of delivering critical care to severely ill patients in a timely, appropriate fashion. Specifically, there are only 1000 board certified surgical intensivists in the US, yet there are 6000 hospitals. This presents considerable complications in decision-making over whether patients are stable enough for transport to tertiary care centers better staffed to address potentially life-threatening conditions. It also leaves an important undermet need for guidance in patient management before transport, in cases where transport is too risky, or where transport would not be cost-effective if specialist consultation could be provided remotely.
We are developing an immersive telepresence system using Internet2 to enable the projection of critical care expertise remotely to support under-served areas. This work is aimed at basic research into providing the optimal integration of all aspects of patient information with real-time full-motion video to create a telepresence equivalent to actually being there with the patient. We will then assess the value of this system to rural and primary care ICUs, demonstrating the clinical utility and cost-effectiveness of such a system. Our research aims involve providing live, streaming video and patient monitoring data over Internet2 with quality of service (reservation protocols), security, robustness, and graceful degradation within an immersive environment with user interface optimized for the critical care worker.
Additional spinoff applications which capitalize on the strengths of this technology are also possible. A generalized telepresence system that enables the user to perceive a fully immersed sense of presence would be of great value to mission planning and operation rehearsal for work in hazardous (eg, spacecraft repair planning after an accident, Chernobyl) or extremely remote areas (mission to Mars, deep sea exploration).
**Article by National Biocomputation Center with Collaboration with Yale University.
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