Clinical and surgical applications of smart glasses
- Stefan Mitrasinovic,
- Elvis Camacho,
- Nirali Trivedi,
- Julia Logan,
- Colson Campbell,
- Robert Zilinyi,
- Bryan Lieber,
- Eliza Bruce,
- Blake Taylor,
- David Martineau,
- Emmanuel L.P. Dumont,
- Geoff Appelboom,
- E. Sander Connolly Jr.
BACKGROUND: With the increased efforts to adopt health information technology in the healthcare field, many innovative devices have emerged to improve patient care, increase efficiency, and decrease healthcare costs. A recent addition is smart glasses: web-...
Tissue regeneration in orthopedic surgery - do we need cells?
BACKGROUND: Tissue engineering has provided the orthopedic surgeon with a vast portfolio of methods for replacement or regeneration of articular cartilage or meniscal tissue. On the one hand cell based techniques such as autologous chondrocyte ...
Methodology of development of a Delirium clinical application and initial feasibility results
BACKGROUND: Delirium is a highly prevalent condition in the hospital settings, with prevalence rates ranging from 6% to 56%, based on previous studies. A recent review provides evidence for the need of practice tools at the point of care to increase impact ...
Secondary triage classification using an ensemble random forest technique
BACKGROUND: Triage of patients in the emergency department is a complex task based on several uncertainties and ambiguous information. Triage must be implemented within two to five minutes to avoid potential fatality and increased waiting time.
OBJECTIVE: An ...
An approach to analyze the breast tissues in infrared images using nonlinear adaptive level sets and Riesz transform features
BACKGROUND: Breast thermography is a potential imaging method for the early detection of breast cancer. The pathological conditions can be determined by measuring temperature variations in the abnormal breast regions. Accurate delineation of breast tissues ...
Treadmill training with tilt sensor functional electrical stimulation for improving balance, gait, and muscle architecture of tibialis anterior of survivors with chronic stroke: A randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Gait training is important for stroke rehabilitation, such as using the treadmill training with functional electrical stimulation (FES).
OBJECTIVE: This study was to investigate the effects of the treadmill training with tilt sensor FES on the ...
Biomechanical evaluation of a new technique for external fixation of unstable supracondylar humerus fractures in children
- Lisa Hohloch,
- Lukas Konstantinidis,
- Ferdinand C. Wagner,
- Peter C. Strohm,
- Norbert P. Südkamp and,
- Kilian Reising
BACKGROUND: Closed reduction and percutaneous pinning is regarded as the treatment of choice for unstable supracondylar humerus fractures, but there are cases in which the use of external fixation is preferable.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to ...
A nickel-titanium shape memory alloy plate for contactless inverse dynamization after internal fixation in a sheep tibia fracture model: A pilot study
- Sebastian Decker,
- Manuel Krämer,
- Anna-Katharina Marten,
- Ronny Pfeifer,
- Volker Wesling,
- Claudia Neunaber,
- Christof Hurschler,
- Christian Krettek,
- Christian W. Müller
BACKGROUND: Inverse dynamization has recently been proposed for the treatment of tibia non-unions. Nickel-titanium (NiTi) shape memory alloys (SMAs) may provide an opportunity for contactless non-invasive alteration of the stiffness of an implant after ...
Effects of interphase interval and stimulation form on dorsiflexors contraction force
BACKGROUND: Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) is commonly used in rehabilitation to restore movement to patients following orthopedic and neurological injuries. When applying NMES the goal is to induce the strongest contractions with minimal ...
Effect of six degrees of freedom knee kinematics on ligament length and moment arm in an intact knee model
BACKGROUND: Biomechanics studies can help improve athletic performance. However, the biomechanics of knee joint ligament length changes and moment arms over six degrees of freedom (DOF) have yet to be established.
OBJECTIVE: To construct a knee model to ...
The importance of patient engagement and the use of Social Media marketing in healthcare
BACKGROUND: The present research aims to identify the application of social media for marketing or communication purposes in healthcare. We studied the opinion of healthcare professionals, organizations and health consumers, trying to identify the current ...
A patient centered electronic health: eHealth system development
BACKGROUND: Medical practice and patient-doctor relationship will continue improving while technology is integrated in our everyday life. In recent years the term eHealth landmarked a new era with improved health provider's skills and knowledge, and ...
Innovation of a syringe needle auto-detaching device for clinicians
BACKGROUND: Needle-stick injuries accounts for a great proportion of all medical accidents in developing and undeveloped countries. The main cause of needle-stick accident injuries is the medical personnel's ``recovering'' the needle action after injection.
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