Tele-ICU Healthcare Services

Despite its high GDP, India has one of the world’s largest numbers of impoverished people, with over 300 million people living in poverty. Aside from pervasive poverty and stark inequality, India has the world’s largest number of leprosy cases, with over 120,000 cases reported in 2019. India was officially proclaimed leprosy-free in 2005 when the new cases dropped to less than 1 per 10,000 (as per WHO standards), the country still has the highest number of leprosy patients in the world. In 2020, India accounted for 51% of all new cases of leprosy diagnosed. INDIAN SCENARIO OF LEPROSY Despite its high GDP, India has one of the world’s largest numbers of impoverished people, with over 300 million people living in poverty. Aside from pervasive poverty and stark inequality, India has the world’s largest number of leprosy cases, with over 120,000 cases reported in 2019. India was officially proclaimed leprosy-free in 2005 when the new cases dropped to less than 1...

 In “Telemedicine”, the word ‘tele’ derives from the Greek, which means ‘at a distance’; hence, clearly, telemedicine can be described as the ‘medicine at a distance’. Moreover, it involves the whole range of medical activities which includes diagnosis, treatment, continuing education of healthcare providers as well as consumers, and research activities. Telemedicine is a healthcare delivery system that provides a platform where the doctor-patient interactions take place through telecommunication medium i.e. via two-way Audio-Visual platforms. Telemedicine is a tool that enables the patient, who is present in distant or rural areas, to have an access to the specialist physician for their treatment and for the prevention of disease. In addition, doctors can study patient’s Investigation reports like vitals and diagnostics reports and can provide treatment plans despite the geographic separation. Telemedicine services has proven its importance by addressing a...

  The super-specialty hospital, established in Gurugram city in 1999, had a bed capacity of 40; of which 6 beds were dedicated to an Intensive Care Unit. After the inauguration of the Critical Care Unit in the Hospital in 2001, it was found that the TeleICU services were compromised because of the non-availability of experienced critical care specialists, nurses, and lack of ICU infrastructure. Consequently, they had to shut down their ICU for several years. The tremendous growth of critical care practice in India has been observed in the past few decades. Issues like the unavailability of intensivists trained ICU staff, and ICU infrastructure and its knowledge have unfortunately created hurdles in the growth of critical care services. Therefore, to meet the growing demand for quality critical care in the country, many modern approaches like Tele ICU have emerged. Our relationship with the hospital started when they wanted to outsource their ICU to restart their critical care serv...

 The year 2020, was the year when people realized the importance of health as an entity and healthcare providers as its irreplaceable core. As per the WHO reports, the deadly coronavirus has infected more than 112 million people worldwide. The safety of the healthcare workers is the topmost priority because they are scarce, limited in numbers and on the frontline in the fight against this deadly virus. The high prevalence of COVID19 needs an innovative approach to come out of this combat situation with minimal if not zero losses. A modern approach with Tele-Medicine at its core value acts as a valuable solution to provide a good quality of care and minimizing the risk of acquiring the infection by healthcare workers.  In this context, eNext ICU, Gurugram, India, came across with its already active Tele-ICU services to provide critical care to corona positive ICU patients in different rural areas where critical care is still a challenge in terms of scarcity of PPE ...

  Tele-ICU term emerges because of the scarceness of Critical Healthcare Capacity. In India, there are only 2.3 critical care beds per 100000 population and only 86.32 doctors per 100,000 persons. Hence, we can estimate that the Demand for critical care is high whereas the availability of experienced critical care specialists and trained ICU staff is very low. How does the Tele-ICU system work? In the Tele-ICU system, a two-way audio-visual camera system is installed in remote Intensive care units, through which experienced intensivists and highly trained ICU nurses can monitor critically ill patients 24*7*365 and provide them with support, emergency medical advice, and the first line of treatment.  With the help of Tele-ICU Services provided by eNexT ICU, patients at high risk can be monitored remotely and are taken care of by experienced intensivists and highly trained nurses by means of a Two-way Audio-Visual camera, in real-time, just by sitting in the command center mile...