Telessáude como estratégia para informar e cuidar: relato de uma experiência no Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, UFBA

Abstract

The anticoagulation clinic, at the Professor Edgard Santos University Complex, assists patients with chronic cardiovascular diseases using oral anticoagulants. With the emergence of the pandemic by COVID19, in March 2020, maintaining the face-to-face care of these patients, without exposing them to the risk of infection and complications from the new virus, became a problem to be solved. In view of this scenario, aiming at maintaining assistance safely, without loss of quality, communication and information technology resources were incorporated, enabling 509 teleconsultations to be carried out between March and July 2020.