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N Zivković

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PubMed2000

A feasibility study of realtime telemedicine in Croatia using Internet videoconferencing.

We explored the feasibility of realtime telemedicine in Croatia using Internet videoconferencing. A 33 kbit/s link was established between a team of specialists in the General Hospital 'Sveti Duh' in Zagreb and a general practitioner's clinic in Selca, on the island of Brac. During a two-week study, 16 patients (median age 51 years) were studied. Twenty-one teleconsultations (seven initial and 14 follow-up visits) were conducted, 13 with a specialist in internal medicine, six with a surgeon and two with a neurologist. In 18 cases (86%) telemedicine successfully replaced hands-on examination. The mean duration of the teleconsultations was 7.2 min (initial visits 7.4 min, follow-up visits 7.1 min). Each computer system cost about US$700. The total connection cost for the study was US$4.95. The teleconsultations saved the patients US$272 in travel costs. We suggest forming a permanent on-line specialist service connected to networked clinics via the Internet to improve access to health-care in Croatia.

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PubMed1995

[Parental behavior during the most common childhood diseases].

The paper analyzes certain aspects of parental behaviour in situations of the most frequent children's diseases: their reactions, habits and some medical knowledge concerning antipyretics and antibiotics. An anonymous self-report questionnaire was applied. Five questions assessed demographic and seven the studied characteristics. 160 parents from the city and surrounding villages participated during period May - June 1993 in the offices of The Children and Adolescent Health Service in Krusevac. Most parents follow up the state of their children and/or try to help on their own before visiting the doctor. Only a small percentage decide to apply antibiotics. Those from villages and those with lower education are more likely to panic. Parents have habits of keeping antipyretics, tea and alcohol in home pharmacies in high percentage. They usually buy drugs or keep them from the previous children's disease. About half of them follow the instructions of doctor at what time the drug is to be applied. The rest take the advice of pharmacists, or act according to previous experience or drug declaration. 53.8% think that raised temperature should be lowered immediately when higher than 37 degrees C. About half of them connect the meaning of antibiotics with infection, but only 17.8% specifically with bacterial infections. It can be concluded that a parent is still an unreliable partner of a doctor for his often medically unjustified behaviour. It is specially characteristic for parents with elementary or secondary education, those from villages and unemployed parents.

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PubMed1980

The effects of parabiotic union with a normal partner on the blood tissue of the b/b rat suffering from an inheritable anemia.

The parabiotic union of a b/b rat, suffering from a red blood cell anemia, with a normal partner will restore to normal the functioning of this type of blood cell. The effect of parabiotic union is evident for several weeks following the separation of the parabiotic partners. It would be logical to conclude that the normal partner supplies a factor absent in the anemic animal needed for normal functioning of the red cell.

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