We started a telemedicine service for paediatric cardiology work in 2006, enabling transmission of echocardiography images via videoconferencing equipment to the specialist paediatric cardiac department at Cardiff for review and/or diagnosis. The system has been used regularly for a range of paediatric cardiology cases. Despite increasing the transmission bandwidth to 1 Mbit/s the transmission of live echocardiography was still considered to be suboptimum. Nonetheless, the implementation of a simple telemedicine service has demonstrated the feasibility of transmitting echocardiography images via videoconferencing equipment for diagnosis and second opinions.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
FinleyJP, SharrattGP, NantonMA, Paediatric echocardiography by telemedicine – nine years' experience. J Telemed Telecare1997;3:200–4
2.
SableCA, CummingsSD, PearsonGD, Impact of telemedicine on the practice of pediatric cardiology in community hospitals. Pediatrics2002; 109:E3
3.
LewinM, XuC, JordanM, Accuracy of paediatric echocardiographic transmission via telemedicine. J Telemed Telecare2006;12:416–21
