Emergency Medicine

Experimental evaluation of a novel robotic hospital bed mover with omni-directional mobility.

Bed pushing during patient transfer is one of the most physically demanding and yet common tasks in the hospital setting. Powered bed movers have been increasingly introduced to hospitals to reduce physiological strains on the users. This study introduces and quantifies the manpower efficiency and health benefits of a novel robotic-assisted omni-directional hospital bed transporter (SESTO Bed Move...

ADMETNet: The knowledge base of pharmacokinetics and toxicology network.

Deep image mining for diabetic retinopathy screening.

Deep learning is quickly becoming the leading methodology for medical image analysis. Given a large medical archive, where each image is associated wi...

Radiofrequency Ablation Followed by Percutaneous Ethanol Ablation Leading to Long-Term Remission of Hyperparathyroidism.

A 30-year-old male with cerebral palsy and motor impairment presented with right femur fracture. He had gradually worsening mobility and contractures ...

Early Detection of Peak Demand Days of Chronic Respiratory Diseases Emergency Department Visits Using Artificial Neural Networks.

Chronic respiratory diseases, mainly asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), affect the lives of people by limiting their activities ...

In Silico Prediction of Chemicals Binding to Aromatase with Machine Learning Methods.

Environmental chemicals may affect endocrine systems through multiple mechanisms, one of which is via effects on aromatase (also known as CYP19A1), an...

Creating an automated trigger for sepsis clinical decision support at emergency department triage using machine learning.

OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the incremental benefit of using free text data in addition to vital sign and demographic data to identify patients with sus...

Utilization of machine learning for prediction of post-traumatic stress: a re-examination of cortisol in the prediction and pathways to non-remitting PTSD.

To date, studies of biological risk factors have revealed inconsistent relationships with subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The incons...

A Framework for Mixed-Type Multioutcome Prediction With Applications in Healthcare.

Health analysis often involves prediction of multiple outcomes of mixed type. The existing work is restrictive to either a limited number or specific ...

Decision Support System for Detection of Papilledema through Fundus Retinal Images.

A condition in which the optic nerve inside the eye is swelled due to increased intracranial pressure is known as papilledema. The abnormalities due t...

Prognosticating Functional Outcome After Intracerebral Hemorrhage: The ICHOP Score.

BACKGROUND: The morbidity, mortality, and monetary cost associated with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is devastatingly high. Several scoring systems ...

Machine Learning Principles Can Improve Hip Fracture Prediction.

Apply machine learning principles to predict hip fractures and estimate predictor importance in Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA)-scanned men and...

Preliminary Assessment of a Compliant Gait Exoskeleton.

Current commercial wearable gait exoskeletons contain joints with stiff actuators that cannot adapt to unpredictable environments. These actuators con...

A First Step towards a Clinical Decision Support System for Post-traumatic Stress Disorders.

PTSD is distressful and debilitating, following a non-remitting course in about 10% to 20% of trauma survivors. Numerous risk indicators of PTSD have ...

Accelerating Chart Review Using Automated Methods on Electronic Health Record Data for Postoperative Complications.

Manual Chart Review (MCR) is an important but labor-intensive task for clinical research and quality improvement. In this study, aiming to accelerate ...

The Safety and Efficacy of Adjuvant Hemostatic Agents During Laparoscopic Nephron-Sparing Surgery: Comparison of Tachosil and Floseal Versus No Hemostatic Agents.

PURPOSE: To compare the effectiveness of TachoSil and Floseal during laparoscopic nephron-sparing surgery (LNSS), and to evaluate postoperative compli...

Accidental ingestion of E-cigarette liquid nicotine in a 15-month-old child: an infant mortality case of nicotine intoxication.

Electronic cigarettes are novel tobacco products that are frequently used these days. The cartridge contains liquid nicotine and accidental poisoning,...

A case of severe corrosive esophagitis, gastritis, and liver necrosis caused by ingestion of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide.

The plastic hardener methyl ethyl ketone peroxide is unstable peroxide that releases free oxygen radicals. Ingestion of this compound induces widespre...

Differential cytotoxicity and internalization of graphene family nanomaterials in myocardial cells.

Given the well-known physical properties of graphene oxide (GO), numerous applications for this novel nanomaterial have been recently envisioned to im...

Cryptogenic Temporal Hollowing.

Temporal hollowing is a common complication that occurs after coronal approach surgeries. However, temporal hollowing without previous nerve damage or...