Teleconsultation for preoperative evaluation during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: A technical and medical feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the surge in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections in early 2020, many medical organisations began developing strategies for implementing teleconsultation to maintain medical services during lockdown and to limit physical contact. Therefore, we developed a teleconsultation preoperative evaluation platform to replace on-site preoperative meetings.

Objective

This study assessed the feasibility of a teleconsultation for preoperative evaluation and procedure-associated adverse events.

Design

Implementation study.

Setting

A tertiary care university hospital in Germany from April 2020 to October 2020.

Patients

One hundred and eleven patients scheduled for elective surgery.

Intervention

Patients were assigned to receive telecon

SUBMITTER: Wienhold J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8630926 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature