An Intelligent Remote Monitoring System for Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients
For the first six weeks following total knee arthroplasty (TKA), a patient will attend an outpatient clinic typically seen twice weekly. Here, an exercise regime is performed and improvement assessed using a hand held goniometer that measures the ...
Effectiveness of an Interdisciplinary Medical Hospital Admission Center: The Role of the Dental Section in the Interdisciplinary System for Perioperative Management of Patients Awaiting Surgery
Perioperative oral functional management (POFM) involves total oral management of a patient before surgery. Considerable benefits have been reported, but POFM remains scarce in medical settings. An interdisciplinary Medical Hospital Admission Center (...
How Can Geography and Mobile Phones Contribute to Psychotherapy?
Interdisciplinary relationships between Geography and Psychotherapy are an opportunity for innovation. Indeed, scientific works found on bibliographic databases and concerning this theme are scarce. Geographical sub-fields, such as the Geography of ...
TraPy-MAC: Traffic Priority Aware Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network
Recently, Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has witnessed significant attentions in research and product development due to the growing number of sensor-based applications in healthcare domain. Design of efficient and effective Medium Access Control (...
Use of Biotechnology Devices to Analyse Fatigue Process in Swimming Training
The aim of the present research was to analyze the acute psycho-physiological response during a high intensity interval training (HIIT) session of trained swimmers. We analyzed blood lactate concentration, heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), arms ...
Quantitative Real-Time Assessment for Feeding Skill of Preterm Infants
Nutritive sucking is the approach of obtaining primary food for newborns within six months. However, completing the precise coordination of sucking-swallowing-respiratory actions under oral feeding is usually difficult for preterm infants and may affect ...
Co-operative Networks and their Influence on Engagement: A Study with Students of a Degree in Nursing
- Pilar Marqués-Sánchez,
- Javier Alfonso-Cendón,
- M Elena Fernández-Martínez,
- Arrate Pinto-Carral,
- Cristina Liébana-Presa,
- Miguel Ángel Conde,
- Francisco José García-Peñalvo
At present, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) emphasizes the importance of collaborative learning in University education. Previous studies have found evidence to support collaborative activities; however, none have analyzed the influence of ...
The Effects of Environmental Factors on the Efficiency of Clinical Commissioning Groups in England: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) were created in 2013 to make the NHS more responsive, efficient and accountable. A large number of different indicators can be used to measure the quality and outcomes of services provided by CCGs, however there is ...
Effect of Parachute Jump in the Psychophysiological Response of Soldiers in Urban Combat
The study of organic and psychological response during combat situations has been poorly reported despite its importance for soldiers training and specific instruction, so it was proposed as aim of the present investigation to analyze the effect of a ...
Plaque Tissue Morphology-Based Stroke Risk Stratification Using Carotid Ultrasound: A Polling-Based PCA Learning Paradigm
- Luca Saba,
- Pankaj K. Jain,
- Harman S. Suri,
- Nobutaka Ikeda,
- Tadashi Araki,
- Bikesh K. Singh,
- Andrew Nicolaides,
- Shoaib Shafique,
- Ajay Gupta,
- John R. Laird,
- Jasjit S. Suri
Severe atherosclerosis disease in carotid arteries causes stenosis which in turn leads to stroke. Machine learning systems have been previously developed for plaque wall risk assessment using morphology-based characterization. The fundamental assumption ...
Effect of Combat Stress in the Psychophysiological Response of Elite and Non-Elite Soldiers
We aimed to analyse the effect of combat stress in the psychophysiological responses of elite and non-elite soldiers. We analysed heart rate, cortical arousal, skin temperature, blood lactate concentration and lower body muscular strength before and ...
Ventilator Data Extraction with a Video Display Image Capture and Processing System
Medical hardware and software device interoperability standards are not uniform. The result of this lack of standardization is that information available on clinical devices may not be readily or freely available for import into other systems for ...
Tri-Scan: A Three Stage Color Enhancement Tool for Endoscopic Images
Modern endoscopes play a significant role in diagnosing various gastrointestinal (GI) tract related diseases where the visual quality of endoscopic images helps improving the diagnosis. This article presents an image enhancement method for color ...
Physicians' Compliance with a Clinical Decision Support System Alerting during the Prescribing Process
Clinical decision support systems have been shown to improve practitioner performance. Most systems designed to prevent medication errors generate lists with patients who fulfill the criteria of the algorithm. These lists are reviewed by a pharmacist ...