Three Valencian hospitals are equipped with a pediatric assessment system via videoconference

The Nisa hospital group of the Valencian Community (9 of October and Virgin of Consuelo, in Valencia, and King Don Jaime in Castellón) has launched a video conferencing service, called 'Medibaby', that offers a direct line to a pediatrician 24 hours of the day to assess the symptoms of minors.

Nisa Hospitals 9 of October and Virgen del Consuelo of Valencia as well as King Don Jaime of Castellón have presented 'Medibaby', a pioneering online pediatric telemedicine system that allows children's schools to have a pediatrician for immediate assessment of the child through videoconference. This system, to which two nursery schools in Valencia have already joined, It is attended daily and twenty-four hours a day by pediatricians from the hospitals' Emergency Department. 9 of October and Virgin of Consuelo of Valencia and King Don Jaime of Castellón.

According to the head of Pediatrics of these three centers, Rafael Lopez Pena, the value of this service is, in addition to reassuring parents who have left their child at school in good health, detect serious pathologies that have been unnoticed and decide to transfer the child to the hospital. The existence of a professional who, by telematic means “control the situation” gives parents peace of mind, as highlighted by the service delegate, called 'Medibaby', at Nisa Hospitals, Jordi de la Torre. This service has already been implemented in 32 nurseries in Madrid that are connected to the Nisa Pardo hospital in Aravaca.

Quality of care for the child

If a child, For example, you start to have a fever or have any type of abnormality, The educator, with the parents' permission, will be able to immediately contact the hospital's emergency pediatricians via videoconference.. The pediatrician requires more precise information and thus has values ​​such as temperature, heart rate, peripheral oxygen saturation (which is measured with a pulse oximeter provided to the school and reveals blood oxygen saturation and heart rate, a very useful piece of information in respiratory processes, very common in children) and it can even be listened to by the pediatrician with a digital stethoscope to which it will be connected via the Internet. With all the data, The professional assesses the child's situation and issues a report with the steps to be taken and the corresponding medication., and may even order your immediate transfer to the hospital or rule out any complications..

The intention of Nisa Hospitals is to also offer this service to individuals to have telemedicine “from home”, according to De la Torre. Next week the new system will begin to work and users will soon be provided with a suitcase with the necessary elements to, For example, address traumatic pathology as a consequence of playing sports.

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