Effect of telestroke on emergent stroke care and stroke outcomes

摘要

The delivery of medical care through telecommunication has been available in one form or another for approx=100 years. In the early 1900s, people living in remote areas of Australia used 2-way radios (powered by dynamos and bicycle pedals) to communicate with the Australian Royal Flying Doctor Service. The first direct reference to telemedicine in the literature was in the 1950s, with the transmission of radiological images by telephone in Philadelphia, closely followed by the teleradiology system established in Montreal, Canada.1 Telemedicine by video communication was first implemented by the University of Nebraska in the 1960s to allow clinicians to service remote populations.