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- ItemAn assistive home care environment for people with special needs.(2002-09-09) Rodriguez-Ascaso, A; Villalar, J L; Arredondo, M T; Valles, M; Cabrera, M FWe have developed a system for supporting people with special needs It allows remote monitoring of electrocardiographic and other signals together with multimode environmental control The multimodal approach allows users with disabilities to interact more with the home environment Telemedicine devices were integrated into the system to provide a link to health services The system provided support for the independent living of people with special needs The pilot site was a rehabilitation service attached to the National Paraplegic Hospital of Toledo Spain During the six week trial period the system did not fail nor was any unauthorized access reported Twelve people with special needs and three staff evaluated aspects of the system on a scale from 0 to 9 on which higher scores indicated a positive assessment The mean score for efficiency was 7 8 for satisfaction 8 for helpfulness 7 4 for controllability 7 2 and for learnability 8
- ItemIntegration of telemedicine into emergency medical services.(2002-09-09) Cabrera, M F; Arredondo, M T; Quiroga, JWe developed an integrated model of telemedicine services in emergency medical care The architecture was designed to support pre hospital management The experimental work was carried out with the collaboration of the emergency medical services EMS in Madrid Two different study populations were defined a control population using conventional EMS protocols and a population using the telemedicine system The telemedicine system was based on a telepresence service electrocardiograms and images were transmitted from the ambulance to the health emergency coordination centre The cost of dealing with 100 patients using telemedicine was C6030 less than the cost of conventional care The response times using telemedicine were significantly lower
- ItemMobile technologies in the management of disasters: the results of a telemedicine solution.(2002-02-04) Cabrera, M F; Arredondo, M T; Rodriguez, A; Quiroga, JNowadays a great number of applications are used to compile and transmit casualties and disasters information but there are many troubles associated with the technology as can be the communications reliability and the size and weight of the devices medical staff has to carry with Telecommunication infrastructures support information movement among geographically dispersed locations Recently a large family of little devices has appeared in the buyer s market They are called Personal Digital Assistants and because of their physic and technical features they are very useful in the emergency field As for the communications reliability many technologies have been developed in the last years but it is necessary to find a solution that can be used in whatever situation independently of the emergency circumstances Facing this reality the Spanish government funded REMAF an ATYCA Initiative of Support for the Technology Security and Quality in the Industry project REMAF joined research groups UPM phone operators Fundaci n Airtel M vil and end users SAMUR to build a disaster data management system conceived to use modern telemedicine systems to optimize the management in these situations taking the advantage of the above mentioned mobile communication tools and networks
- ItemA telemedicine model for integrating point-of-care testing into a distributed health-care environment.(2002-09-09) Villalar, J L; Arredondo, M T; Meneu, T; Traver, V; Cabrera, M F; Guillen, S; Del Pozo, FCentralized testing demands costly laboratories which are inefficient and may provide poor services Recent advances make it feasible to move clinical testing nearer to patients and the requesting physicians thus reducing the time to treatment Internet technologies can be used to create a virtual laboratory information system in a distributed health care environment This allows clinical testing to be transferred to a cooperative scheme of several point of care testing POCT nodes Two pilot virtual laboratories were established one in Italy AUSL Modena and one in Greece Athens Medical Centre They were constructed on a three layer model to allow both technical and clinical verification Different POCT devices were connected The pilot sites produced good preliminary results in relation to user acceptance efficiency convenience and costs Decentralized laboratories can be expected to become cost effective
- ItemTransmission trials with a support system for the treatment of cardiac arrest outside hospital.(2001-09-28) Rodriguez, A; Villalar, J L; Arredondo, M T; Cabrera, M F; Del Pozo, FA mobile electrocardiogram ECG transmission system was developed which could transmit single lead ECG data via GSM mobile telephony Ambulance transmission trials comprised a total of 72 communications of which 94 were successful The system was able to redial up to a predetermined number of times until the GSM call was re established during the trials this value was set to five The average number of GSM call tries was 1 3 per connection The mean time required to establish a connection was 45 s the minimum was 34 s when only one attempt was needed to establish a GSM call The average duration of ECG transmission between communication breakdowns was 5 min 12 s When a link breakdown occurred the user had to wait for an average of only 42 s to continue monitoring the signal