title: A telemedicine wound care model using 4G with smart phones or smart glasses: A pilot study.
abstract: To assess the feasibility of a wound care model using 4th-generation mobile communication technology standards (4G) with smart phones or smart glasses for wound management.This wound care model is an interactive, real-time platform for implementing telemedicine changing wound dressings, or doing operations. It was set up in March 2015 between Jinhua in Zhejiang province and Shanghai, China, which are 328 km apart. It comprised of a video application (APP), 4G net, smart phones or smart glasses, and a central server.This model service has been used in 30 patients with wounds on their lower extremities for 109 times in 1 month. Following a short learning curve, the service worked well and was deemed to be user-friendly. Two (6.7%) patients had wounds healed, while others still required wound dressing changes after the study finished. Both local surgeons and patients showed good acceptance of this model (100% and 83.33%, respectively).This telemedicine model is feasible and valuable because it provides an opportunity of medical service about wound healing in remote areas where specialists are scarce.
authors: Institute of Burns, Ruijin Hospital Department of Wound Healing, Shanghai Ninth Hospital, School of Medicine,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
authors: Junna
authors: J
authors: Ye
authors: Yanhai
authors: Y
authors: Zuo
authors: Ting
authors: T
authors: Xie
authors: Minjie
authors: M
authors: Wu
authors: Pengwen
authors: P
authors: Ni
authors: Yutian
authors: Y
authors: Kang
authors: Xiaoping
authors: X
authors: Yu
authors: Xiaofang
authors: X
authors: Sun
authors: Yao
authors: Y
authors: Huang
authors: Shuliang
authors: S
authors: Lu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002681:China; D005139:Eyeglasses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010865:Pilot Projects; D018570:Risk Assessment; D000068997:Smartphone / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*