Road Accidents and importance of individualised Teleradiology Support

The recent ghastly road accident involving the death of Cyrus Mistry, Ex Chairman of Tata Group, and near-death injury of Dr Anahita Padole, a leading Gynecologist and Head of Breach Candy Hospital, made us believe in the importance of safe driving practices and sound road designs. Well, still, not all accidents or impact of accidents could be avoided. We have to face it this or that way. Aftermath accident, neglect over primary health care is always a lost pivot in policy measures in limiting accidental deaths. Especially early diagnosis of the victim remains a huge gap in the aftermath of road collisions. Where the MRI, CT scan and radiology reports can prove a magic by being a quick probing tool in those lifesaving times.

Trauma MRI Scan or Accidental CT scan

Over the years, civil society and public institutions are contemplating on policy measures around road accidents and fatalities therein. Primary care by its definition in those frameworks does not account radio-diagnosis actively in its scope. The persistent policy gap due to lack of early diagnosis of trauma and related injury is quite alarming. On the ground, local doctors are helpless when they put more time into investigations- reducing time on treatment and management during critical stages. Rescue operations need time. MRI Neuroimaging or CT Cardiogram or MRI Spinogram and other modalities during truma are more beneficial than providing psychological support to the victim. Time runs out so fast. Not just imaging but MRI reads from skilled radiologists should be available within 1 hour in these trying circumstances.

 Trauma Teleradiology in less than hour

There are several online teleradiology platforms that provide critical support for Trauma Patients by hiring and tasking radiologists during special hours at higher rates. Example. 100 USD are charged at time by radiologist for single Trauma MRI Brain Reporting.  Radiology of Trauma cases is not easy job, it needs good experience but real challenge to put the report in a given timeframe. This challenge is recently solved by some tele reporting platforms by putting automation to use. They have made algorithms to know the skills of radiologists and their availability in real time. These online tele reporting platforms not just report trauma cases through aggregation model at real discounted prices. These platforms also report MRI Trauma second opinion, MRI Brain Second opinion, CT Cardiac cases, MRI Spine Opinions and even harder cases without premium. They evolve Panel reporting for real tough cases that too in shortest given time period. With their ERP, they offer 24x 7 helpline, Dicom Viewer and consultation support to patients, hospitals, doctors and other specialists. These platforms coordinate the faster workflows around radiologist tasks. The world of teleradiology is moving towards individual case support rather than bulk reporting.

 The real time case aggregation and allotment of second opinion cases over days and night maintains the momentum and interest of good radiologists for fulfilling gaps in Trauma tele-reporting in all time zones. It is possible to offer a dry read of MRI or Night-Hawk Tele-Reporting services of MRI and CT scan in 15 minutes whenever needed, mostly for  trauma cases. The early diagnosis this way can boost the morale of the local physician and also increases survival chances.

by a Senior radiologist at Teleradiologyhub.com