Biophotonic telemedicine for disease diagnosis and monitoring during pandemics: Overcoming COVID-19 and shaping the future of healthcare

Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther. 2020 Sep:31:101836. doi: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2020.101836. Epub 2020 May 27.

Abstract

  1. Infection prevention and control (IPC) strategies against COVID-19 include social distancing and isolating infected patients.

  2. The clinical management of pandemic settings relies on enabling telemedicine associated to disease diagnosis and monitoring.

  3. OTelemedicine has become common practice for monitoring of individual vital signs (VS) and patient status at isolation rooms.

  4. Optical and biophotonic technologies have potential to improve treatment outcome and increase survival rates.

  5. Biophotonic telemedicine advancements should focus on the development of reliable and user-friendly technology.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Biophysical Phenomena
  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
  • Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
  • Environmental Monitoring / methods*
  • Forecasting
  • Global Health
  • Humans
  • Infection Control / methods*
  • Inhalation Exposure / adverse effects
  • Pandemics / prevention & control*
  • Pandemics / statistics & numerical data
  • Photochemotherapy
  • Photosensitizing Agents / pharmacology*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
  • Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
  • Primary Prevention / methods
  • Telemedicine / methods*
  • World Health Organization

Substances

  • Photosensitizing Agents