ONTONAGON -- Patients at Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital will be able to see Wausau cardiology specialists and pediatricians without leaving the Ontonagon hospital.
Registered nure Judy Rusch, cardiovascular outreach coordinator for Aspirus Health System, demonstrated the capability at an open house for the community.
She said specialist Dr. David Murdock and pediatrician Dr. Larry Gordon will be seeing patients referred to them by primary physicians.
Rusch said a nurse trained in the teleconference and cardiovascular field will take the vital signs, and history of the patients and they will be immediately faxed to the physicians in Wausau.
They will then see the patients through the teleconference technology where the patient can talk to the doctor face to face.
The doctor will be able to hear the heart sounds, lungs and examine feet through the technology.
Rusch said the pediatrician can even see in the child's mouth through the screen with a special magnified technology.
She said if the patient needs to come to Wausau for surgery, the post operative examinations can be done at Ontonagon instead of traveling to Wausau.
On hand at the open house was Bob Lind, Ontonagon, who had his heart surgery at Wausau. He and his wife Jean said it will be nice to be able to have Lind's checkups in Ontonagon instead of traveling, especially in the winter.
