Emergency Medicine

Blood pressure and heart rate from the arterial blood pressure waveform can reliably estimate cardiac output in a conscious sheep model of multiple hemorrhages and resuscitation using computer machine learning approaches.

BACKGROUND: This study was a first step to facilitate the development of automated decision support ...

[Esmolol improves clinical outcome and tissue oxygen metabolism in patients with septic shock through controlling heart rate].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether esmolol could improve clinical outcome and tissue oxygen metabolis...

Emergency Department Visit Forecasting and Dynamic Nursing Staff Allocation Using Machine Learning Techniques With Readily Available Open-Source Software.

Although emergency department visit forecasting can be of use for nurse staff planning, previous res...

Design and real-time control of a robotic system for fracture manipulation.

This paper presents the design, development and control of a new robotic system for fracture manipul...

Emergency response nurse scheduling with medical support robot by multi-agent and fuzzy technique.

In this paper, a new co-operative re-scheduling method corresponding the medical support tasks that ...

Past, Present, and Future of Minimally Invasive Abdominal Surgery.

Laparoscopic surgery has generated a revolution in operative medicine during the past few decades. A...

Secondary triage classification using an ensemble random forest technique.

BACKGROUND: Triage of patients in the emergency department is a complex task based on several uncert...

A methodology for mining clinical data: experiences from TRANSFoRm project.

Data mining of electronic health records (eHRs) allows us to identify patterns of patient data that ...

Tele-care robot for assisting independent senior citizens who live at home.

In the last twenty years most developed countries face dramatic demographic changes, and predominant...

Design of a quasi-passive 3 DOFs ankle-foot wearable rehabilitation orthosis.

Muscular rigidity and atrophy caused by long-term underactivity usually lead to foot drop, strepheno...

Design of a biped robot actuated by pneumatic artificial muscles.

High compliant legs are essential for the efficient versatile locomotion and shock absorbency of hum...

Markerless surgical robotic system for intracerebral hemorrhage surgery.

Conventional intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) surgery uses a stereotactic frame to access an intracere...

Effects of Rivaroxaban Therapy on ROTEM Coagulation Parameters in Patients with Venous Thromboembolism.

BACKGROUND: Rivaroxaban (Xarelto) does not require routine coagulation monitoring; however, in certa...

Ambient Temperature Change Increases in Stroke Onset: Analyses Based on the Japanese Regional Metrological Measurements.

BACKGROUND: Relationships between various climate factors and stroke have long been a subject of inv...

Management of bone loss in postmenopausal breast cancer patients treated with aromatase inhibitors.

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women, but despite survival rates improvem...

Vasopressin and its copilot copeptin in sepsis and septic shock.