Wound care


Contactless care


The pandemic has been a challenge for health systems globally, including the dilemma of how to continue meeting the needs of patients with underlying conditions while ensuring safety. Chronic wounds require constant management and in-person treatment, raising the question: what has been the impact of Covid-19 on this essential service? Mae Losasso speaks to Dr Ammar Al Rubaiay, foot and ankle surgeon at North Shore Foot & Ankle Associates; Dr Alisha Oropallo, medical director of the Comprehensive Wound Healing Center and Hyperbarics at Northwell Health; and Kevin Keenahan, co-founder and CEO of Tissue Analytics, to fi nd out about the telemedicine- based strategies that are changing the future of wound care.


misnomer, since the star-shaped echinoderm isn’t a fish at all. The term ‘telehealth’ is also a misnomer – or at the very least misleading – since the prefix ‘tele’, in a modern communications context, refers to something that has changed beyond recognition over the last 20 years: the phone. If the word ‘telephone’ brings to mind a household object, plugged into a wall, with a spiral


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he term ‘misnomer’ describes a word that inaccurately names or designates something else. For example, ‘starfish’ is a common


cord, then the term ‘mobile phone’ probably makes you think of a portable device from the 2000s, furnished with flip top and antenna. Both are fast falling into the annals of technological antiquity, made increasingly obsolete by the smartphone. Of course, this is what telehealth – or ‘telemedicine’, as it is sometimes called – refers to: not the old- fashioned telephone consultation, but the development and use of app-based technologies and video conferencing platforms across a range of healthcare contexts.


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