Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Remote Monitoring of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices in Italy: Results of a Survey Promoted by AIAC (Italian Association of Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing)
| Autor: | Pietro Palmisano, Silvana De Bonis, Giuseppe Boriani, Donato Melissano, Antonio D'Onofrio, Renato Pietro Ricci, Maurizio Del Greco, Massimiliano Maines, Roberto De Ponti, Stella Baccillieri, Gabriele Zanotto |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Telemedicine
cardiac implantable electronic devices Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Cardiac pacing business.industry COVID-19 General Medicine Telehealth telecardiology medicine.disease Article Cardiac implantable electronic devices Remote monitoring Telecardiology Outpatient visits Health care Pandemic medicine Medicine In patient Medical emergency business remote monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol 10, Iss 4086, p 4086 (2021) Journal of Clinical Medicine Volume 10 Issue 18 |
| ISSN: | 2077-0383 |
| Popis: | The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the organisation of health care in Italy, with an acceleration in the development of telemedicine. To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the spread of remote monitoring (RM) of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) in Italy, a survey addressed to cardiologists operating in all Italian CIED-implanting centres was launched. A total of 127 cardiologists from 116 Italian arrhythmia centres took part in the survey, 41.0% of all 283 CIED-implanting centres operating in Italy in 2019. All participating centres declared to use RM of CIEDs. COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an increase in the use of RM in 83 (71.6%) participating centres. In a temporal perspective, an increase in the median number of patients per centre followed up by RM was found from 2012 to 2017, followed by an exponential increase from 2017 to 2020. In 36 participating centres (31.0%) a telehealth visits service was activated as a replacement for in-person outpatient visits (in patients with or without CIED) during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 pandemic has caused an acceleration in the use of RM of CIEDs and in the use of telemedicine in the clinical practice of cardiology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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