Does telemedicine provide benefits for emergency medical services?

A review of evidence for hypoglycaemic conditions in diabetes mellitus

Roxana Flavia Ilies, Andreea Catana
Department of Medical Genetics, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj Napoca

Life
threatening

Common Preventable
Hypothesis: can we use current technology to aid in
Hypoglycaemia in
hypoglycaemic crises?
Diabetic pts ?Decrease admission in emergency departments
?Prevent severe episodes
?Improve patient quality of life

What we did:
PubMed PMC search “telemedicine” AND “emergency” AND “hypoglycemia”
133 articles, 12 of which met inclusion criteria
Included any article(review or original research) which reported on emergency outcomes of
telemedicine use
Exclusion criteria : articles dealing with gestational diabetes or long term follow-up, articles in
languages other than English and broken links.

In lieu of conclusion
Missing links in bringing
telemedicine to patients
Aids in • Connection from site of
and emergency services:
responding emergency to MD
to • Pilot studies, no data on
emergencies feasibility •Optimisation and extensive
testing of existing systems and
platforms
•Technical demands(in today’s
Two types of situation, they are mostly met,
intervention as smartphone-type devices
are sufficient for this purpose)
Lessening • Alert and detection systems •Acknowledgement from
notifying patient of
occurrence imminent hypoglycaemia institutions, support and
of
emergency • Proven to lessen severe inclusion in protocols
events and promote patient
situations wellbeing