ArticleAnnals of the American Thoracic Society2016
Rapid Deployment of International Tele-Intensive Care Unit Services in War-Torn Syria.
Article in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- Innovative technologies to address neglected tropical diseases in African settings with persistent sociopolitical instability.Nature communications · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of armed conflict on health professionals' education and training in Syria: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2023Pooled it
- Teledermatology in Atopic Dermatitis: A Systematic Review.Journal of cutaneous medicine and surgeryPooled it
- Survey to evaluate clinical benefits and acceptance in international tele-intensive care unit collaboration.BMC research notes · 2026Article
- Factors influencing access to primary healthcare services for refugee children under five in the Palestinian West Bank: a qualitative study with female caregivers.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- AI is already in the theatre of war just not on the side of the patient: clinical chatbots, telemedicine, and an agenda for "AI for medical humanity".Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- The Feasibility and Impact of Implementing Interventions to Reduce Short-Acting βAdvances in therapy · 2025Review
- TICU-Feedback-Tool: development and pilot application of a questionnaire to assess performance in tele-intensive care collaborations.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Healthcare workers' perceptions of postoperative care and implementation challenges in conflict-affected northwest Syria: a mixed-methods analysis.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- How health technology can ease the terrible toll of war.Nature medicine · 2024Article
- AI in conflict zones: the potential to revitalise healthcare in Syria and beyond.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- Radiology in conflict: scoping review.Conflict and health · 2024Article
- Implementation of a Multimodal Knowledge-Exchange Platform to Provide Trauma Critical Care Education During the Ongoing Conflict in Ukraine.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Telemedicine interventions in six conflict-affected countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region: a systematic review.Conflict and health · 2022Review
- Conflict-related health research in Syria, 2011-2019: a scoping review for The Lancet - AUB Commission on Syria.Conflict and health · 2021Article
- eHealth for service delivery in conflict: a narrative review of the application of eHealth technologies in contemporary conflict settings.Health policy and planning · 2021Review
- Telemedicine Across the Globe-Position Paper From the COVID-19 Pandemic Health System Resilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) International Consortium (Part 1).Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- A conceptual framework for capacity strengthening of health research in conflict: the case of the Middle East and North Africa region.Globalization and health · 2019Article
- Implementation science in resource-poor countries and communities.Implementation science : IS · 2018Article
- Digital technologies and adherence in respiratory diseases: the road ahead.The European respiratory journal · 2018Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
The conflict in Syria has created the largest humanitarian emergency of the twenty-first century. The 4-year Syrian conflict has destroyed hospitals and severely reduced the capacity of intensive care units (ICUs) and on-site intensivists. The crisis has triggered attempts from abroad to support the medical care of severely injured and acutely ill civilians inside Syria, including application of telemedicine. Within the United States, tele-ICU programs have been operating for more than a decade, albeit with high start-up costs and generally long development times. With the benefit of lessons drawn from those domestic models, the Syria Tele-ICU program was launched in December 2012 to manage the care of ICU patients in parts of Syria by using inexpensive, off-the-shelf video cameras, free social media applications, and a volunteer network of Arabic-speaking intensivists in North America and Europe. Within 1 year, 90 patients per month in three ICUs were receiving tele-ICU services. At the end of 2015, a network of approximately 20 participating intensivists was providing clinical decision support 24 hours per day to five civilian ICUs in Syria. The volunteer clinicians manage patients at a distance of more than 6,000 miles, separated by seven or eight time zones between North America and Syria. The program is implementing a cloud-based electronic medical record for physician documentation and a medication administration record for nurses. There are virtual chat rooms for patient rounds, radiology review, and trainee teaching. The early success of the program shows how a small number of committed physicians can use inexpensive equipment spawned by the Internet revolution to support from afar civilian health care delivery in a high-conflict country.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.