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Physicians Update
Winter 201 3
Technology Issue
Donor Organs
p. 3
Telemedicine p. 4
Ethics p. 6
High-Tech Transport System p. 8
Inflammatory Bowel Disease p. 10
Telemedicine Remote Access Extends Specialty Care to More Patients
Nearly 56 million Americans — more than
5 million in California alone — live in areas
where distance or other barriers impede their
access to needed medical services. Advances
in telemedicine now make it possible for these
previously underserved populations to receive
life-saving treatment within minutes, even
when medical subspecialists are in short supply.
“There aren’t enough pediatric cardiologists
in every hospital and every community across
the country to provide timely diagnosis to
patients with congenital heart defects,” explains
Gary M. Satou, MD, director of pediatric
echocardiography at Mattel Children’s Hospital
UCLA and codirector of the UCLA Fetal
Cardiology Program.
Patients with congenital cardiac malformations,
the most common birth defect, can have low
oxygen levels and die within hours of birth if
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