Medical Consultations With Webcams Extremely Successful

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Medical Consultations With Webcams Extremely Successful
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday August 10, @03:43PM
from the video-killed-the-radio-doc dept.
Medicine
AgaveNectar writes "Doctors are far from being early adopters, so they have just gotten around to publishing a report that webcams help immensely with making the right decision when someone shows up to a rural emergency room suffering from a stroke. Using clot-destroying medications like alteplase is really risky, and it should only be given in acute cases. In a study of 222 patients, rural ER doctors consulted with faraway stroke specialists. They made the right decision 98 percent of the time when the expert examined the patient with a webcam, and only 82 percent of the time when they just talked to each other on the phone. Perhaps this report will finally convince the medical community that telemedicine is important."
http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/08/10/1849255.shtml

[Gregg]

And that could be extended to some internal problems as well someday. Just saw a report about a tiny tethered camera that one can swallow and retrieve! It's said to feel like you have a long piece of spaghetti in your throat.
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[krissel]

Better the string retrieval than the alternative.  

[kbeartx]

QUOTE(krissel @ Aug 11 2008, 04:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Better the string retrieval than the alternative.

Is this some kind of oblique reference to string theory?

Anyway, this item reminds me of this pic, which is part of that Wired series of Future Artifacts.


 - KB

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QUOTE(kbeartx @ Aug 11 2008, 10:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

QUOTE(krissel @ Aug 11 2008, 04:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Better the string retrieval than the alternative.

Is this some kind of oblique reference to string theory?

Anyway, this item reminds me of this pic, which is part of that Wired series of Future Artifacts.


 - KB

Yah i hear ya, but a doctor friend of mine in s. dakota uses webcams pretty successfully. It's a gud thang as a jailbird lady once made a habbit of saying.

[Gregg]

QUOTE(kbeartx @ Aug 11 2008, 09:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Anyway, this item reminds me of this pic, which is part of that Wired series of Future Artifacts.

...which reminds me of the TV commercial wherein a fellow is on the phone with his doctor while wielding a kitchen knife in preparation for his surgery... "Shouldn't you be doing this?" says he.