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Title Home long terms oxygen treatment in Italy : the additional value of telemedicine / R.W. Dal Negro, A.I. Goldberg (eds.)
Published Milan ; New York : Springer, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 162 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Telemedicine in Respiratory Care / A.I. Goldberg -- Home Long-Term Oxygen Treatment (H-LTOT): Why, Where, and How / R.W. Dal Negro -- From National to Regional Criteria for H-LTOT / F. Facchini, F. Trevisan -- Systems for Oxygen Delivery / E. Battaglia, S. Amaducci -- The Interfaces / S. Amaducci, E. Battaglia -- Telemedicine and LTOT in Italy: a 20-Year Experience / R.W. Dal Negro, P. Turco -- New Telemonitoring Technologies in Italy / C. Guglielmetti, M. Gaiani -- The Changing Role of Nursing in Telemetric LTOT at Home / R. Bisato, C. Turati -- Home LTOT: Patient-Caregiver Compliance and Adhesion / P. Pescatori, R. Cadinu -- Complications in LTOT patients / C. Micheletto, R.W. Dal Negro -- LTOT Outcomes: Patient's and Doctor's Perspectives / S. Tognella -- Telemedicine for Home-Ventilated Patients / E.E. Guffanti, D. Colombo, A. Fumagalli, C. Misuraca, A. Viganò -- Economic Evaluation of Treating Patients with Long-Term Oxygen Therapy with or without Telemetric Monitoring / R. Ravasio, R.W. Dal Negro, C. Lucioni -- Continuing Quality Improvement in the Management of H-LTOT / M. Farina, S. Tognella
Summary As an American, I recently began extending visits to friends in Italy by meeting families providing "agriturismo". My Italian speaking wife Evi (Eveline Faure, MD, FCCP, a graduate of the Università Italiana per Stranieri, Perugia) made this p- sible. During one visit in 1994,we were sitting around the table in Pisa with friends who were fellow critical care physicians. They were remarking how specialists needed more patients. We told them that we were going south beyond Naples, a concept which they could not understand, considering the beauty of Tuscany. We had a marvelous time in southern Italy, meeting warm and welcoming people, surely one of the greatest resources of all Italy. While in Calabria, I noted there were so many people on the streets joyfully communicating on their cell phones. (This was before cellular technology became so popular in the USA). Evi commented how tele-communication had advanced in Italy; she remembered how it took three hours to make a phone call with a jetton only a few years before. Later, in a small town (Revello, Basilicata), we met a w- derful young family who told us how difficult it was to get medical care. Yes, they had good general physicians, but it was hard to reach specialists many kilometers away. At the time, we were staying on a farm with an elderly couple, who invited us to join them to share meals. During conversation, I learned that the farmer had chronic lung disease and required long-term oxygen. He, too, found it difficult to get the care he needed in rural Italy
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Subject Oxygen therapy -- Italy
Home care services -- Italy
Long-term care of the sick -- Italy
Telecommunication in medicine -- Italy
Oxygen Inhalation Therapy -- methods
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive -- therapy
Respiratory Insufficiency -- therapy
Telemedicine -- trends
MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Respiratory Therapy.
Home care services
Long-term care of the sick
Oxygen therapy
Telecommunication in medicine
SUBJECT Italy
Subject Italy
Form Electronic book
Author Dal Negro, Roberto
Goldberg, Allen I
LC no. 2005934784
ISBN 9788847003880
8847003881
9788847004481
8847004489
6611349472
9786611349479