REMOTE Study: Feasibility and Effectiveness of Telemedicine-based Echocardiography Mentoring in Intensive Care
Authors' conclusion
Real-time remote mentoring for critical care echocardiography is technically feasible and educationally valuable in the intensive care setting.
Study context
- Population
- Practitioners in an adult ICU (Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK) receiving real-time remote echocardiography mentoring via the Remote Education, Augmented Communication, Training and Supervision (REACTS) telemedicine platform with the Philips Lumify handheld ultrasoundJune 2020–June 2021
- Participants
- 15 participants
- Comparison
- Novices vs Accredited
- Novicesn = 12
- Accreditedn = 3
- Outcome
- Feasibility and effectiveness of remote mentoring
Methodological detailssingle-centre, convergent parallel design
- Single-centre
- Convergent parallel design
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Mean image quality score across all echocardiographic views (/2.00)
1.57-2.00
Mean report accuracy across all echocardiographic views (/2.00)
1.86-2.00
Mean teaching effectiveness score (/6.00)
5.87-6.00
Further findings
User experiences (thematic analysis)
- Four key themes: accessibility of expertise, educational value, technical considerations, implementation challenges
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Original publication
REMOTE Study: Feasibility and Effectiveness of Telemedicine-based Echocardiography Mentoring in Intensive Care. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. Published 17 July 2025. doi:10.
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