Abstract Background About 40% of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in Brazil do not receive reperfusion therapy. Objective The use of a telemedicine network based on WhatsApp® could increase the percentage of patients receiving reperfusion therapy. Methods A cross-sectional study analyzed outcomes before and after the organization of a telemedicine network to send the electrocardiogram via WhatsApp® of patients suspected of STEMI from 25 municipalities that are members of the Regional Health Department of Ribeirão Preto (DRS−XIII) to […]

Introduction COVID-19, initially described at the end of 2019 in China, may present as atypical pneumonia and severe respiratory failure. Classified in February 2020 as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 has had major clinical, social, political and economic implications. Society as a whole has had to adapt to a new reality, forcing hospitals to rewrite their routine practices and clinical pathways. Specific measures have had to be put in place to prevent hospital transmission of the […]

Introduction The Federal Medical Council (CFM) has recently published a new resolution on telemedicine in Brazil. The 2227/2018 resolution, establishing the criteria for the use of telemedicine, was published in Diario Oficial da União (DOU, the official journal of the federal government of Brazil) on February 6, 2019. This new policy, aimed at defining telemedicine as a way of providing medical services by means of technology, is much more aggressive than the previous one published in 2002, which limited the […]