Her doctor was on holiday but came back to operate on her urgently . It is the story of a 13-year-old heart patient being treated at the Regina Margherita in Turin , saved thanks to telemedicine and a text message sent directly to the specialist from the device that monitors her heartbeat.
The young woman, who often felt faint and felt sick , suffered a cardiac arrest while she was at home. A few months ago she was visited by the head of pediatric arrhythmology at the Turin hospital, Dr. Fulvio Gabbarini , who had implanted the "Loop Recorder" subcutaneously, which monitors the heartbeat in real time. It had been programmed so that it could send a text message in the event of cardiac arrest. And so it happened.
Her parents took her to Regina Margherita, in the meantime the device had already transmitted the alert to the doctor, who was on holiday outside Piedmont. Having received the message, the arrhythmologist left for Turin where he implanted the pacemaker in the little girl. The thirteen-year-old was discharged from the unit and is now well.
(Unioneonline/vf)
