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Remote Rehabilitation Conferences in the Age of SARS-CoV-2.

Shinichiro Maeshima, Takamichi Tamiya, Takuma Saeki, Mai Ohkawara, Manabu Osakabe, Yushiro Take, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Takahiro Maeda, Jun Ohkawara.   

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Year:  2020        PMID: 32516284      PMCID: PMC7315842          DOI: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001498

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Am J Phys Med Rehabil        ISSN: 0894-9115            Impact factor:   3.412


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To the Editor: We read with great interest the article by Dr. Mukaino et al.,[1] entitled “Staying active in isolation: Telerehabilitation for individuals with the SARS-CoV-2 infection". The authors commend the authors who provide the necessary rehabilitation care for the individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection. We would like to add remote rehabilitation conferences to their method. Rehabilitation conferences are essential to enable multidisciplinary staff with various highly specialized skills to share goals and information as well as coordinate with and complement one another. Because of the availability of few specialized rehabilitation physicians and a distance of over 1,000 km, we attempted to hold remote conferences using Skype (Microsoft, Redmond, WA) to link a hospital in Hokkaido with a university in Ishikawa. Rehabilitation evaluation is performed immediately after hospitalization at a rehabilitation ward, and the rehabilitation physician in the remote site confirms basic attributes such as the patient’s condition and comorbidities. Moreover, by setting short-term and long-term goals, the hospitalization period is determined and rehabilitation program design is discussed. It is known that there is no major difference in what can be achieved for the above between remote and face-to-face conferences in which rehabilitation physicians participate.[2] Globally, the cumulative number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 has recently exceeded 6 million and the death toll has reached 370,000.[3] To halt the further spread of the virus, many people around the world are limiting their movement and activities. On April 7, 2020, the Japanese government declared a state of emergency in seven prefectures throughout Japan. On April 16, 13 prefectures, including Hokkaido and Ishikawa, were specified as prefectures requiring specific caution. Furthermore, over 16,000 people have been infected in Japan (as of the end of May, 2020) and 892 people have died. Infection countermeasures are being carefully implemented in hospitals because of the frequent occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 infections. Convergence of many medical staff at the rehabilitation center is avoidable via remote rehabilitation conferences (which can be implemented from a dedicated room). Interestingly, such conferences allow determining patient treatment policies and educating rehabilitation staff. Although, several remote rehabilitation systems have already been constructed to respond to possible pandemics,[1] we would like to propose that our remote rehabilitation conference system is highly useful.
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1.  Staying Active in Isolation: Telerehabilitation for Individuals With the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection.

Authors:  Masahiko Mukaino; Tsuyoshi Tatemoto; Nobuhiro Kumazawa; Shigeo Tanabe; Masaki Katoh; Eiichi Saitoh; Yohei Otaka
Journal:  Am J Phys Med Rehabil       Date:  2020-06       Impact factor: 3.412

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1.  Balancing infection control and frailty prevention during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Introduction of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology Home Exercise Program for Older People Home Exercise Program for Older People 2020.

Authors:  Aiko Osawa; Shinichiro Maeshima; Izumi Kondo; Hidenori Arai
Journal:  Geriatr Gerontol Int       Date:  2020-09       Impact factor: 3.387

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