Mental and Emotional Health Care for COVID-19 Patients Employing Pudu, a Telepresence Robot
Mental and Emotional Health Care for COVID-19 Patients Employing Pudu, a Telepresence Robot
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DOI：
10.1109/mra.2020.3044906
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发表时间：
2021-03-01
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Urrutia, Javier
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作者：
Ruiz-del-Solar, Javier;Salazar, Mauricio;Urrutia, Javier
COVID-19大流行正在影响患者、家庭成员、医护人员和社区的心理和情绪健康。病人因长期住院和隔离而出现症状，保健工作者因感染的可能性和他们提供的护理种类的迅速变化而受到压力。机器人技术可以帮助解决这些压力。本文介绍了Pudu的发展和主要特点，Pudu是一种远程呈现机器人，旨在为COVID-19患者和医护人员，特别是神经科医生和重症监护心理学家提供安全的沟通。文章指出了在密集隔离期间仅八周内就开发和部署机器人的关键方面，并描述了机器人如何协助医护人员提供精神和心理健康护理。目前，两台普度机器人已在智利两家医院投入使用。尽管圣地亚哥市正在朝着隔离程度较低的方向发展，但仍需要我们的机器人帮助为被隔离的患者提供所需的情感支持和精神/心理健康护理。
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the mental and emotional health of patients, family members, health-care workers, and the community. Patients are affected by symptoms produced by prolonged hospitalization and isolation, and health-care workers are affected by the stress produced by the possibility of infection and rapid changes in the kinds of care they provide. Robotics technologies can contribute to addressing these stresses. This article describes the development and main characteristics of Pudu, a telepresence robot designed to provide safe communication between COVID-19 patients and health-care workers, particularly neurologists and intensive care psychologists. The article identifies the key aspects that enabled the development and deployment of the robot in just eight weeks during an intensive quarantine and describes how the robot is assisting health-care workers in providing mental and psychological health care. At present, two Pudu robots are in use in two Chilean hospitals. Although the city of Santiago is moving toward less-intensive levels of quarantine, our robots are still needed to help provide the required emotional support and mental/psychological health care to confined patients.