Abstract

The increasing physical, mental, societal, and financial challenges posed by wounds and their care for individuals, families, and society underscore the urgent need for attention from the healthcare sector. Various factors contribute to the shifting landscape of healthcare provision for patients dealing with chronic wounds, including managed care dynamics, the scarcity of wound care specialists, a growing elderly and disabled population, regulatory concerns, and legal liabilities. Physicians also grapple with complex issues in managing chronic wound cases due to their time-intensive nature, high-risk profile, lack of profitability, and legal implications. Telemedicine emerges as a valuable tool to facilitate communication between physicians and specialized wound care experts. Utilizing digital imaging for skin lesions offers a safe, precise, and cost-efficient means of referral. Telemedicine employs two primary modes—store and forward (asynchronous transfer) and real-time transmission (synchronous transfer, such as video conferencing)—in the wound care context. In the hands of experienced clinicians, telemedicine technology can streamline the management of challenging wounds. While apprehension about technological change persists, the evolution of telemedicine in wound care has demonstrated a foreseeable process of advancement. In this case report, we have reported a case of 8 year old male child who sustained electrical burns over scalp, and was discharged later following wound healing. The child later developed pustule over the scalp which was picked up immediately and attended to, because of serial follow up everyday following discharge, because of telemedicine

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