TY - CHAP
T1 - Smartphone Telemedicine Networks for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) in Latin America
T2 - SP-ROP (Panamerican Society of ROP)
AU - de Kartzow, Alejandro Vazquez
AU - Acevedo, Pedro J.
AU - Saidman, Gabriela
AU - Schbib, Vanina
AU - Zuluaga, Claudia
AU - Monteoliva, Guillermo
AU - Carrascal, Marcelo
AU - Salvatelli, Adrian
AU - Patiño, Susana
AU - Marmol, Juan
AU - Ferres, Juan Lavista
AU - Castellanos, Maria Ana Martinez
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - In the 1990s, ROP was identified as the main cause of blindness in children in Latin America. From that moment on, regional efforts began to prevent, detect and treat ROP. Today, there are numerous barriers to providing adequate ROP care, and one of the biggest problems in ROP programs is the difficulty in accessing and referring preterm babies, as well as the limited number of human resources available for the timely detection, treatment, and monitoring of ROP. For this reason, the importance of telemedicine arises as a diagnostic tool that will allow us to overcome these obstacles. Telemedicine records, stores and shares retinal images and epidemiological data remotely among specialists, and is an emerging technology in ophthalmology. This would have a potential utility to exceed the diagnostic goals in the care of ROP.
AB - In the 1990s, ROP was identified as the main cause of blindness in children in Latin America. From that moment on, regional efforts began to prevent, detect and treat ROP. Today, there are numerous barriers to providing adequate ROP care, and one of the biggest problems in ROP programs is the difficulty in accessing and referring preterm babies, as well as the limited number of human resources available for the timely detection, treatment, and monitoring of ROP. For this reason, the importance of telemedicine arises as a diagnostic tool that will allow us to overcome these obstacles. Telemedicine records, stores and shares retinal images and epidemiological data remotely among specialists, and is an emerging technology in ophthalmology. This would have a potential utility to exceed the diagnostic goals in the care of ROP.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-24052-2_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-24052-2_18
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85170183680
SN - 9783031240515
SP - 253
EP - 295
BT - Digital Eye Care and Teleophthalmology
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -