Telemedicine
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Telemedicine
What is telemedicine?
Medical care is in need of optimisation in many regions of Germany. This applies in particular to rural areas, structurally weak regions, the coastline, islands and Halligen islands. At the same time, the installation of offshore wind farms in the North and Baltic Seas is creating new demand.
Telemedicine is available at Oldenburg Hospital to bridge the spatial and temporal distance between specialist and patient and to close gaps in care: emergency physicians assess the clinical situation of patients without delay, make diagnoses, take further therapeutic decisions and guide first aiders or qualified healthcare professionals. With our telemedicine network, gaps in care can be closed wherever highly qualified medicine is in short supply.
How does telemedicine work?
Telemedicine makes it possible to bring German university medicine to all regions of Germany and the world in real time: A modern small medical device on site uses the latest technology to transmit vital data and high-resolution audio and video streams to the telemedicine centre in real time via all communication channels (satellite, WLAN, GPRS, GSM, Ethernet), regardless of the patient's location.
This enables our team of doctors to obtain an accurate picture of the patient's state of health. Even ultrasound images, cardiac catheterisations or X-ray images can be transmitted to the telemedicine centre by trained users on site.
Important decisions can be made:
- What is wrong with the patient? Is the situation life-threatening?
- Can the patient remain on site or does their treatment need to be changed? Is it perhaps even necessary to transport the patient to hospital? In the offshore wind industry, for example, such transport by ship or helicopter can be very costly and time-consuming, and is also dependent on the sea and weather conditions
- What measures can and must be taken until rescue equipment arrives? The telemedicine specialist can give instructions and guidance.