In 2012, NCH Healthcare System partnered with the Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic, allowing physicians to consult remotely, perform a percentage of the most productive practices, and even diagnose patients by videoconference.
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The collaboration between the local fitness formula and one of the country’s most productive hospitals was worth the coronavirus pandemic when remote paints have the added advantage of minimizing person-to-person contact.
The two establishments will take their association to a new point starting today with what they call a “community convention on cardiology” in Zoom at 11 a. m.
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To sign up for video conferencing, stop at the NCH online page at www. nchmd. org/cardiology-speaker-series, where participants can locate access with a single click.
This is the first in a three-part series, with upcoming October and November dates announced as they are completed.
The purpose is to talk to network members about problems that are emerging as the pandemic enters a new phase.
Specifically, while COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory disease, doctors are starting to see that it can also have serious implications for the center’s fitness center.
As others begin to grasp anything that looks like a life in general, doctors need others to perceive the dangers and take action for themselves, said Dr. David Axline, a NCH cardiologist and one of the program participants. Kristin Mascotti of NCH and Dr. Melissa Lyle of Mayo Clinic.
“Although it is a respiratory virus, it affects the whole body. We don’t fully perceive how COVID affects the heart, but it obviously affects the heart,” Axline said.
People with serious problems at the center, such as attacks on the center in the past, are obviously in greater danger than others.
But even less severe conditions, such as high blood pressure and obesity, can also be a problem, he said. “Abdominal obesity increases ‘bad mood’, so to speak,” Axline said.
Doctors will provide data and answer questions from Zoom participants during the session.
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The purpose is not to scare people, but to assure them that doctors are in condition and to help them as the winter season progresses.
NCH has enough beds, appliances and workers’ bodies to deal with the pandemic, even if an outbreak occurs at the time, CEO Paul Hiltz said.
On Tuesday, after construction work materialized due to Labor Day or school opening, there were fewer than 25 COVID patients in NCH hospitals, compared to a maximum of 144 in July.
NCH has worked with Mayo Clinic on studies on convalescent blood plasma taken from cured patients.
This is just one example of the agreement between the two teams that paid off with the pandemic, Hiltz said.
Remote meetings are nothing new for both organizations. They have been part of the harvester since the beginning of the arrangement.
But they were no more unusual and obligatory than the pandemic.
Axline said she’s expecting remote meetings by the norm. “I think he probably came to stay. It’s not easy to deal with patients this way, but we all need to be informed about how to do it. You have to make it work,” he said.
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The series of online meetings with fitness professionals at NCH and the Mayo Clinic to answer network questions and disseminate useful data is a way to leverage generation to allay fears while instilling a sense of caution, Axline said.
“We all have to go live our lives, but it’s vital that we take this seriously,” Axline said.
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