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ArticleBMJ case reports2019

Use of home telemedicine for critical illness rehabilitation: an Indian success story.

Dileep Unnikrishnan, Dileep Raman, Dhruv Joshi, B S Ajaikumar

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Dileep UnnikrishnanInternal Medicine, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6743-4792
Dileep RamanDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Cloudphysician Healthcare, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Dhruv JoshiDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Cloudphysician Healthcare, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
B S AjaikumarDepartment of Oncology, HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One-fifth of healthcare beneficiaries in developed nations get discharged from hospitals to physician supervised skilled nursing care facilities. In low-income and middle-income countries like India, postdischarge skilled nursing facilities are at a very nascent stage and largely underequipped in terms of infrastructure, skilled nursing and physician staff to manage complicated patients. Hence the responsibility of management of such patients lies largely with their families. We present a case where a 26-year-old man with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy who became ventilator dependent following major surgeries was weaned off his ventilator and rehabilitated back to his prehospital state. This was done at his home with visiting nurses and rehabilitation services under telemedicine supervision by a critical care specialist. Use of telemedicine services could be a viable and cost-effective option to ensure adherence to evidence-based medicine and standardisation of care in resource limited countries such as India.

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Home Care ServicesTelemedicineAdultCost-Benefit AnalysisCritical IllnessEvidence-Based MedicineHealth Services ResearchHumansIndiaMaleMuscular Dystrophy, DuchenneTreatment OutcomeVentilator Weaningchronic disease / disability nursingintensive carepublic healthrehabilitation medicine

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PMID30796070
PMCPMC6388885

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