The use of telemedicine to provide pediatric critical care consultations to pediatric trauma patients admitted to a remote trauma intensive care unit: a preliminary report.

Objective: Injured pediatric patients in remote communities are often cared for at trauma centers that may be underserved with respect to pediatric specialty services. The objective of this study is to describe a pilot telemedicine project that allows a remote trauma center's adult intensive care unit to obtain nontrauma, nonsurgical-related pediatric critical care consultations for acutely injured children.

Design: Nonconcurrent cohort design.

Use of telemedicine to provide pediatric critical care inpatient consultations to underserved rural Northern California.

Objective: To report a novel application of telemedicine and to assess the resulting quality and satisfaction of care. Study design An existing telemedicine program was evaluated through the use of a nonconcurrent cohort design. Cohorts of patients were compared by means of the Pediatric Risk of Mortality, version III (PRISM III), to adjust for severity of illness and assess risk-adjusted mortality rates.

Financial benefits of a pediatric intensive care unit-based telemedicine program to a rural adult intensive care unit: impact of keeping acutely ill and injured children in their local community.

The objective of this research was to examine the fiscal impact of telemedicine consultations for acutely ill and injured children in a rural setting using pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) telemedicine. One hundred seventy-nine acutely ill and injured infants and children were cared for in the Mercy Redding ICU from April 2000 to April 2002. Data were gathered from these patients, including 47 patients who received 70 pediatric ICU telemedicine consultations during the same time period.