Using Telemedicine to Optimize Teamwork and Infection Control of Critical and Highly-infectious Patients in an Emergency Department

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

74 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-02-03

Study Completion Date

2021-07-31

Brief Summary

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Since 2000, various emerging infectious diseases have repeatedly caused serious impact on the health of the global population and the healthcare systems. With the growing international transportation and improving accessibility of the healthcare systems, hospitals have been inevitably the first sentinels dealing with emerging infectious diseases. The biological disasters, such as the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korean in 2015, and the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak this year, challenged our vulnerable healthcare systems and caused great loss of lives.

Regarding the ongoing global epidemics and possible community outbreaks of the COVID-19, the management of biological disasters for an overcrowded emergency department should be planned. In the early 2020, the emergency department used a double-triage and telemedicine method to treat non-critical patient with suspected COVID-19. This application reduced the exposure time of the first responders and reserve adequate interview quality. However, for the critical patients treated in the isolated resuscitation rooms, the unique environment limited the teamwork and communication for the resuscitation team. These factors might led to poorer quality of critical care.

The investigators designed a telemedicine-teamwork model, which connected the isolation room, prepare room and nursing station by an video-conferencing system in the emergency department. This model try to break the barriers of space between the rooms and facilitate the teamwork communications between each unit. Besides, by providing a more efficient workflow, this model could lower the total exposure time for all workers in the contaminated area. This study was conducted to evaluate the benefits of the telemedicine-teamwork model and provide a practical, safe and effective alternative to critical care of the patients with suspected highly infectious diseases.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Critical Illness Infections, Respiratory Emergency Service, Hospital Telemedicine

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_CONTROL

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Critical patients in the emergency department

telemedicine

Intervention Type OTHER

Using telemedicine system to communicate

traditional communication tools

Intervention Type OTHER

Use telephone or direct verbal communication

Interventions

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telemedicine

Using telemedicine system to communicate

Intervention Type OTHER

traditional communication tools

Use telephone or direct verbal communication

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

For patients:

1.Patients triaged as highly-infectious patients, needed to be treated in isolation rooms in the emergency department.

For healthcare providers:

1\. Those providers who participates in the critical care for the patients included in the study accordingly

Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

99 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No