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Letter to the Editor
Volume 13, Number 10-11, November 2021, pages 515-516
Telemedicine in Pediatrics: Introduction of an Innovative New Tool to Diagnose and Treat Children in an Ambulatory Setting
Table
ECG: electrocardiography. |
Telemedicine virtual setting |
Telemedicine setting will be established by iphone face time setting or other telemedicine services. |
Questionnaire |
1) Age of child, problem the child attends the doctor (anamnesis includes fever, condition of the child, rash, time the problem started), exact fever analysis, two-time fever measurement. |
2) Clinical examination: starting from head to feet: |
a) Head: color face; lymph nodes, eyes, ears, mouth, and neck. |
b) Thorax: excursions, breathing, jugular withdrawals (obstructive?), distance belt, support of the auxiliary respiratory muscles (heart auscultation not possible but ECG and analysis of ECG with telemedicine). |
c) Abdomen: assistant examines the abdominal four quadrants by control of the doctor in telemedicine, examination of umbilicus to diagnose umbilical hernia or inguinal hernia (hernial sac). |
d) Check genitals: testicles inside the scrotum, redding of the scrotum, blue dot sign, hydrocele, inguinal hernia. |
3) Therapy: prescribed medications by telemedicine; nurse provides prescription in the ambulatory center; parents/patients go to pharmacy. |