Telehealth in the Developing World

Abstract

The most recent use of telemedicine in an emergency situation in Russia was to support the Children’s Field Hospital of the All-Russia Centre of Disaster Medicine in the Chechen Republic in 2001. The doctors of the field hospital had to provide care for patients with various conditions resulting from explosion trauma and from fire-arms, as well as providing diagnosis and treatment for children with a wide range of pathologies, including acute and chronic diseases (e.g. congenital, malignant, neurological and cardiovascular). This situation required distant medical support, which was realized by installing a telemedicine unit at the field hospital.