The doctors from Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa are using video technology to interact with doctors from Iraq's second largest hospital. It's a first in a new plan that could help save the lives of Iraqi children.
Doctors, like Christine Clary will be sharing ideas and expertise with Iraqi doctors caring for kids in a 655 bed hospital in Bagdad.
So far, those involved are calling it an adventure and a expansion of technology that is already being used through rural parts of the state.
Doctors believed if it could help 100 miles away, it could work 7,000 miles away.
"A lot of times when one doctor is trying to make a decision it is difficult, but you can bring in somebody else and say hey what do you think too? and it's just kind of allowing that teamwork philosophy to expand for patient care there too," says Dr. Christine Clary.
The plan is to hold the video consultations between tulsa and iraq each week, with the hopes of one day expanding it to other iraqi hospitals.
In addition to the video link, a high speed internet connection will allow doctors and technicians in Iraq to send medical records, charts and X-rays back and forth.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Ashley Ketz
Quelle/Source: KFSM, 22.07.2010
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