Telemedicine for chronic pain management during COVID-19 pandemic
Telemedicine for chronic pain management during COVID-19 pandemic
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DOI：
10.4103/ija.ija_652_20
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发表时间：
2020-06-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Bajwa, Sukhminder Jit Singh
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作者：
Ghai, Babita;Malhotra, Naveen;Bajwa, Sukhminder Jit Singh
慢性疼痛的治疗是一项基本的服务。由于封锁、旅行限制、社交和物理距离要求或担心卫生保健机构可能被感染，患者可能会避免亲自前往卫生保健机构。还必须减少医护人员接触严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2(SARS CoV2)的风险，并缓解公开负担过重的卫生保健系统。但疼痛实践的任何中断都将对个人、社会以及整个医疗保健系统和提供者产生令人震惊的后果。在当前新冠肺炎大流行的情景下，远程医疗正在成为提供基本医疗服务的有效沟通和可持续解决方案的关键技术，应该考虑用于慢性疼痛患者(CPP)。最近，印度医学委员会代理理事会与印度国家转型研究所(NITI Aayog)共同发布了《远程医疗实践指南》，允许注册医生使用远程医疗提供医疗保健。本文描述了新冠肺炎大流行期间CPPS面临的挑战，以及在当前情景下远程医疗作为CPPS救援管理工具的使用。
Treatment of chronic pain is an essential service. Due to lockdown, travel restrictions, social and physical distancing requirements or fear that health care facilities may be infected; patients may avoid visiting health care facilities in person. It is also imperative to decrease the risk of exposure of the health care workers (HCWs) to severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS CoV2) and to ease the overtly burdened health care system. But any disruption in pain practice will have alarming consequences for individuals, society, and whole of health care system and providers. In the current scenario of COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine is emerging as a key technology for efficient communication and sustainable solution to provide essential health care services and should be considered for chronic pain patients (CPPs). Recently, Board of Governors in supersession of Medical Council of India along with National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) released "Telemedicine Practice Guidelines" enabling registered medical practitioners to provide healthcare using telemedicine. This article describes the challenges in CPPs during COVID-19 pandemic and the use of telemedicine as the rescue management vehicle for CPPs in current scenario.