In critical condition was taken to the poorly equipped Ma'rwa local hospital, where he had a potentially life-threatening pressure sore. From there he became a field hospital in the United States in Iraq. But Army doctors had little experience in treating children, injuries or chronic pressure ulcers. With the help of the National Association of spinal cord (NSCIA), a doctor who uses the technology of telemedicine to consult with specialists at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC
Marcie Roth of treatment at a distance
Telemedicine is a kind of "long" medicine, in the telecommunications sector, off-site medical services to patients in remote areas. Also telecharger Rehabilitation is the provision of rehabilitation measures, especially on the Internet. Some common treatments include a web camera, video phone, e-mail images, and Internet applications.
Telemedicine allows Iraq stationed pediatric use in real time for evaluation and treatment of Ma'rwa. As a pediatrician e-mail photos of the pressure ulcer experts in Washington, DC, experts suggested in the course of treatment to update pictures via e-mail every few days.
In the next two months, an agreement was reached on Ma'rwa on treatment and rehabilitation in the United States that would allow him to return to his family. In telemedicine, the pressure the patient was almost healed at the time Ma'rwa came to America.
Growing trend
At NSCIA, which supports telemedicine Ma'rwa treatment and rehabilitation, which is widely used in the field of neuropsychology, speech language pathology, audiology, occupational therapy and physical therapy. Telemedicine also demonstrate and teach themselves - such as transfer from one bed to a wheelchair. Telemedicine and the rehabilitation of patients who can not order these services for a variety of reasons, including mobility, lack of trained professionals in this field, and the distance from the medical center.
U. S. Improved health
Telemedicine is essential to the U.S. health care, because it fills a gap for patients who have no access to first class medical centers. These services offer fewer patients faster, more frequent medical attention and follow-up care after discharge to prevent further complications.
With telemedicine, rehabilitation and delivered primarily through the Internet, which is largely dependent on the ability of Banda Ancha. To realize its advantages, we need large investments in new capacity for the transfer of medical data and network exaflood - the explosion of the Internet content of exhaustion. Consider this, the power consumed by the use of bandwidth applications such as YouTube video, which muchbandwidth today as the entire Internet consumed in 2000.
Intelligent solutions
Continuous investment in broadband is key to this important medical technology. We can in the coming exaflood by encouraging investment in the network, consumer protection, competition, and to minimize the amount of state control.
Ma'rwa is his legal representative and with the consent of the father, I did not expect, I live in Maryland Ma'rwa to medical treatment and experiences as a child, free from war. Nevertheless, he could not get a visa to NSCIA Ma'rwa always families with satellite telephone to stay in touch.
Almost immediately, the phone was stolen, or food may be sold. It was almost a year since I spoke Ma'rwa experience, or if you need medical care. If we have access to the Internet to facilitate communication, and may even televise their rehabilitation treatment.
Marcie Roth is the Executive Director and Director General of the National Association of the spinal cord, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of hundreds of thousands of Americans, with the results of spinal cord injury and disease and their families. In NSCIA is a member of the Internet Innovation Alliance.