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Open Access
01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Robotic telepresence in acute care facilities in community hospitals in Mexico
Authors:
G Vazquez de Anda, S Larraza Rico, L De la Cruz Avila, S Resendiz, M Escudero, R Tapia Rodriguez, Y Gutierrez Mariano, G Diaz Diego, J Mejia Nava, R Camacho Beiza
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
Telepresence using robots (TPR) in acute care facilities (ACF) is being increasingly accepted as a new and practical way of solving the shortage of intensivists in community hospitals (CH) where there are not specialists available 24/7 [
1,
2]. The main objective of this study is to show the early experience of using TPR in four CH in Mexico. …