Telemedicine in neurology

Kujawska Agnieszka, Perkowski Radosław, Androsiuk-Perkowska Joanna, Kożuchowski Marcin, Bieniek Daria, Domeracki Mateusz. Telemedicine in neurology. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(9):144-151. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3386864 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/7377 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 05.08.2019. Revised: 15.08.2019. Accepted: 05.09.2019. Telemedicine in neurology Agnieszka Kujawska 1,2, Radosław Perkowski 2, Joanna Androsiuk-Perkowska 2, Marcin Kożuchowski 3, Daria Bieniek 2,4, Mateusz Domeracki 5 1. Department of Physiology, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland 2. Faculty of Health Sciences, Department and Clinic of Geriatrics, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland 3. Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Ergonomics, Division of Ergonomics and Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland 4. Nicolaus Copernicus Specialist City Hospital in Toruń, 17/19 Batorego Street, 87100 Toruń, Poland 5. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, UTP University of Sciences and Technology in Bydgoszcz, Poland Abstract Introduction Telemedicine in neurology has been developed for the last two decades. However, this concept has only been introduced to the emergency scene recently. In the above review current state and prognosis of development of telemedicine would be described. Material and methods Articles in the EBSCO database have been analyzed using keywords: telemedicine, neurology. The available literature is subjectively selected. Then, the newest version of every paper was searched for. Results Results of researches with applications of telemedicine in neurology in emergency, chronic conditions. Moreover, potential costs and benefits were described. Conclusions The involvement of stroke specialists also facilitated the diagnosis of other neurological emergencies such as intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, hypoglycemia and seizure. Potential barriers to the use of this technology include the initial costs of equipment and training of personnel. Further development of telemedicine would possibly improve both emergency and long-term care in neurology. Key words: remote; care; neuroscience; brai