title: Fast resuscitation and care of the burn patients by telemedicine: A review.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In Iran, burns are the second most common cause of death, after traffic accidents in individuals under the age of 15 years. Many burned patients die or suffer injury due to lack of immediate care, so we need to use an alternative resuscitations to cure them immediately. Telemedicine describes the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients' health status and care. The aim of this study was to express the advantages of Telemedicine to resuscitate and care burn patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was a narrative review. The literature was searched on fast resuscitation and care of the patients' burn by telemedicine with the help of libraries, databases, and also searches engines available at Google, Google scholar, books and conference proceedings. In our searches, we employed the following keywords and their combinations: Telemedicine, Telecare, Burn, Burn patient, Air transport, Triage and Health Information Management in the searching areas of titles, keywords, abstracts and full texts.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this study, more than 78 articles and reports were collected and 30 of them were selected based on their relevancy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Acute evaluation of burn patients can be performed by the telemedicine and it plays an important role in improving access to the required expertise, and raises physician confidence in treating burn patients. This can reduce under-triage or over-triage for air transport and finally lead to saving time and cost.
authors.affiliation: Health Information Technology and Management Department, Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Sima
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ajami
authors.affiliation: Health Information Technology, School of Medical Management and Information Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Arezo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arzani-Birgani
keywords: Air transport; burn; patient; telecare; telemedicine; triage