Doctor Visits

Doctors with equipped medical vehicles are ready to visit patients 24 hours a day

Nurse Visits

Registered nurses visit patients at home to perform procedures such as stoma and ulcer care, wound care, catheter replacement etc.

Hospital at Home

The patient is treated at home as if he were in a hospital...

Doctor Visits

One can call hoMed even for an ordinary medical visit at home for common problems such as a febrile infection or gastric upset.

During the visit, the mobile unit of hoMed can:

• Use mobile diagnostic equipment (Electrocardiograph, blood gas and biochemical analysis, radiology equipment e.t.c.)

• Administer medications needed urgently from the fully supplied mobile pharmacy.

• Administer IV fluids.

• Place urinary catheters and/or nasogastric tubes.

• Lance an abscess or repair a laceration.

• Stop a hemorrhage ( i.e. epistaxis).

• Aspirate bronchial secretions.

• Administer oxygen from oxygen concentrators.

• Take blood, urine and other biological material for immediate laboratory testing.

The urgent laboratory tests are completed soon after they are brought into the hospital laboratory.

Finally, all the necessary equipment is set up at the patient’s home and is available in each mobile unit and ready for initiating any home treatment necessary.
In other words full medical admission and treatment at the patient’s home.

Thus, an unscheduled call to home, can anticipate the following options:

• Medical examination, electrocardiograph, simple medical advice and a medical script if possible.

• Simple therapeutic steps may be taken( injection, insertion of a catheter).

• Blood taking, taking, X-rays and a re-examination scheduled with the results.

• Immediate initiation of Home Hospitalization.

Cases in which Home Hospitalization is immediately initiated are:

Α. Sudden and life threatening events.

(pulmonary edema, bowel obstruction, acute anuria).
Treatment starts immediately and the medical team does not leave the patient’s home until the clinical state is stabilized or until decision is made that the patient must continue treatment in hospital.

Β. Events, which are not immediately life threatening, but hospital treatment and intravenous medication are necessary.

(Serious respiratory tract infection, severe dehydration, epileptic fits, intractable vomiting, electrolyte disturbances, severe gastroenteritis). Treatment is initiated, an IV drip is placed, and the initial antibiotic doses are administered, blood and urine specimens are obtained for laboratory analysis and the medical team leaves.
The next visit will be arranged by the next shift, unless the patient presents a new symptom or some complication, when an emergency visit will occur.

C. Cases of diagnostic doubt

(abdominal pain with vomiting which could develop into acute pancreatitis). Home Hospitalization starts, collection of blood and urine specimens is completed and the medical team leaves. The next visit (which could be in the middle of the night) will depend on the results of the laboratory tests and on the patient’s clinical progress (with in-between communication over the phone). If all is well, the next visit will be done in the next shift.

X-Rays at Home

X-rays are easily performed at home with the aid of digital technology without any patient discomfort. They are digitally developed during the visit and they can be sent by e-mail to any recipient.

Bedside blood tests

Important blood examinations can be performed during a doctor's home visit in only a few minutes:

BUN, Glucose, Creatinine, Potassium, Sodium, Hematocret, Hemoglobin, Anion gap, Blood gases, Lactate, PT/INR, Troponine, BNP.

These blood tests help the doctor to promptly correct any severe abnormality such as water and electrolyte disorders, hyperglycemia etc. or to diagnose early life-threatening conditions such as MI or hypercapnia.