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Published in: Critical Care 4/2005

01-08-2005 | Commentary

Robotic telepresence in the intensive care unit

Author: Paul Vespa

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 4/2005

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Providing timely expertise in the care of critically ill patients is one of the main goals of critical care medicine [1]. This is a challenging goal, given the acknowledged shortage of intensive care specialists [2]. It requires the bedside nurse to have real-time access to senior level intensive care physicians, and conversely it requires the intensivist to have access to the intensive care unit (ICU). The strategic use of information technology (IT) has become one of the important features of modern critical care. IT applications offer the promise of improving patient care, physician efficiency, and patient outcomes [3, 4]. …
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Metadata
Title
Robotic telepresence in the intensive care unit
Author
Paul Vespa
Publication date
01-08-2005
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 4/2005
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc3743

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