Practical experience of telehealth between an Antarctic station and Japan
Summary The Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) has had a presence in Antarctica since 1956. The Syowa station is 15,000 km from Japan and evacuation of patients is impossible during the winter months. From 1956 to 2003, a total of 4932 telemedical consultations were undertaken, i.e. every...
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crsagepubl:10.1258/jtt.2012.gth111 2024-04-07T07:47:41+00:00 Practical experience of telehealth between an Antarctic station and Japan Ohno, Giichiro Watanabe, Kentaro Okada, Yutaka Higuchi, Kazuo 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/jtt.2012.gth111 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1258/jtt.2012.gth111 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1258/jtt.2012.gth111 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare volume 18, issue 8, page 473-475 ISSN 1357-633X 1758-1109 Health Informatics journal-article 2012 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1258/jtt.2012.gth111 2024-03-08T03:18:40Z Summary The Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) has had a presence in Antarctica since 1956. The Syowa station is 15,000 km from Japan and evacuation of patients is impossible during the winter months. From 1956 to 2003, a total of 4932 telemedical consultations were undertaken, i.e. every member of the station needed an average of 4 medical consultations each winter. Forty five percent of the consultations were surgical or orthopaedic cases, 23% were for internal medicine and 12% were for dental problems. In the early 1980s, satellite radio-telephony was found to be useful for consultations, but did not have the ability to transmit medical pictures. Email was transmitted by the International Mobile Satellite Organization (INMARSAT) but the connection was only available every 2 hours and the maximum message size was 100 kByte. In 2004, the International Telecommunications Satellite (INTELSAT) system made a connection constantly available, and increased the maximum message size to 10 MByte. Transmission of still and moving pictures became possible. Scheduled consultations are performed monthly. A doctor in Japan can ask the patient questions and perform a proxy examination with the assistance of the Antarctic doctor. Real-time telemedicine is very effective in orthopaedic and surgical cases, skin, eye and dental troubles. Still pictures are more effective for understanding in detail skin and eye problems. Emergency consultations are effective if adequate consulting staff are available. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica SAGE Publications Antarctic The Antarctic Syowa Station Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 18 8 473 475 |
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Summary The Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) has had a presence in Antarctica since 1956. The Syowa station is 15,000 km from Japan and evacuation of patients is impossible during the winter months. From 1956 to 2003, a total of 4932 telemedical consultations were undertaken, i.e. every member of the station needed an average of 4 medical consultations each winter. Forty five percent of the consultations were surgical or orthopaedic cases, 23% were for internal medicine and 12% were for dental problems. In the early 1980s, satellite radio-telephony was found to be useful for consultations, but did not have the ability to transmit medical pictures. Email was transmitted by the International Mobile Satellite Organization (INMARSAT) but the connection was only available every 2 hours and the maximum message size was 100 kByte. In 2004, the International Telecommunications Satellite (INTELSAT) system made a connection constantly available, and increased the maximum message size to 10 MByte. Transmission of still and moving pictures became possible. Scheduled consultations are performed monthly. A doctor in Japan can ask the patient questions and perform a proxy examination with the assistance of the Antarctic doctor. Real-time telemedicine is very effective in orthopaedic and surgical cases, skin, eye and dental troubles. Still pictures are more effective for understanding in detail skin and eye problems. Emergency consultations are effective if adequate consulting staff are available. |
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