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Ecuador Virginia : Commonwealth
University Medical School, located in Richmond, Virginia provides remote
anesthesia monitoring services to Secua, Ecuador, using TeleVital’s VitalWare
technologies which monitors and records physiological data in real-time
over the Internet. A consulting anesthesiologist at the Virginia Commonwealth
University’s Medical College of Virginia Hospital monitored the breathing
and heart rhythms of a young woman undergoing a gall bladder operation 3,000
miles away in Secua, Ecuador. The operation, which was performed in a remote
area of Ecuador, exemplifies how easy it is to connect to VitalWare.
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Using a laptop computer in Virginia, a member of the surgical team logged
into the TeleVital Website and monitored the patient’s vital signs. This
field test in Ecuador was part of ongoing telemedicine evaluations conducted
by VCU- based Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium
(MITAC), a Commercial Space Center (CSC) sponsored by the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA). The project was conducted using TeleVital’s
VitalWare technology under the direction of MITAC Executive Director, Charles
R. Doarn. |
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