Telemedicine in the Management of Head Trauma: An Overview

Abstract

This article reviews the successful utilization of telemedicine in managing head trauma. Telemedicine has made geography history and distance meaningless. It can be a major tool in providing expertise for the management of neurotrauma cases, in far away areas. With the digital divide reducing in India, telemedicine should be considered a method to overcome the shortage of neuro-traumatologists. Following a discussion of the relevance of telemedicine in the Indian context and after outlining the author's personal experience, the world literature is reviewed.

Keywords

Telemedicine - Head injuries - neurotrauma

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