Telemonitoring in Long-COVID Patients—Preliminary Findings

Anna Romaszko-Wojtowicz, Stanisław Maksymowicz, Andrzej Jarynowski, Łukasz Jaśkiewicz, Łukasz Czekaj and Anna Doboszyńska
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Anna Romaszko-Wojtowicz: Department of Pulmonology, School of Public Health, Collegium Medicum of the University of Warmia and Mazury, ul. Jagiellońska 78, 10-357 Olsztyn, Poland
Stanisław Maksymowicz: Department of Psychology and Sociology of Health and Public Health, School of Public Health, Collegium Medicum of the University of Warmia and Mazury, al. Warszawska 30, 10-082 Olsztyn, Poland
Andrzej Jarynowski: Aidmed Sp. z o.o., ul. Uphagena 27, 80-237 Gdańsk, Poland
Łukasz Jaśkiewicz: Department of Human Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, Collegium Medicum of the University of Warmia and Mazury, al. Warszawska 30, 10-082 Olsztyn, Poland
Łukasz Czekaj: Aidmed Sp. z o.o., ul. Uphagena 27, 80-237 Gdańsk, Poland
Anna Doboszyńska: Department of Pulmonology, School of Public Health, Collegium Medicum of the University of Warmia and Mazury, ul. Jagiellońska 78, 10-357 Olsztyn, Poland

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 9, 1-12

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the high usefulness of telemedicine. To date, no uniform recommendations or diagnostic protocols for long-COVID patients have been developed. This article presents the preliminary results of the examination of patients after SARS-CoV-2 infection who were provided with medical telemonitoring devices in order to oversee their pulmonological and cardiological health. Three cases have been analyzed. Each patient underwent a 10-day registration of basic vital signs, in three 15-min sessions daily: RR (respiratory rate), ECG (electrocardiogram), HR (pulse), SPO 2 (saturation), body temperature and cough. Rule methods and machine learning were employed to automatically detect events. As a result, serious disorders of all the three patients were detected: cardiological and respiratory disorders that required extended diagnostics. Furthermore, average values of the selected parameters (RR, HR, SPO 2 ) were calculated for every patient, including an indication of how often they exceeded the alarm thresholds. In conclusion, monitoring parameters in patients using telemedicine, especially in a time of limited access to the healthcare system, is a valuable clinical instrument. It enables medical professionals to recognize conditions which may endanger a patient’s health or life. Telemedicine provides a reliable assessment of a patient’s health status made over a distance, which can alleviate a patient’s stress caused by long-COVID syndrome. Telemedicine allows identification of disorders and performing further diagnosis, which is possible owing to the implementation of advanced analysis. Telemedicine, however, requires flexibility and the engagement of a multidisciplinary team, who will respond to patients’ problems on an ongoing basis.

Keywords: telemedicine; long-COVID; cardiological and respiratory disorders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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