Hospital-Based Medicine

LEGO Mindstorms NXT for elderly and visually impaired people in need: A platform.

This paper presents the employment of LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics as core component of low cost multidisciplinary platform for assisting elderly and visually impaired people. LEGO Mindstorms system offers a plug-and-play programmable robotics toolkit, incorporating construction guides, microcontrollers and sensors, all connected via a comprehensive programming language. It facilitates, without sp...

Comparison of aglycon and glycosidic saponin extracts of tuber against spp.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Candidiasis, an important fungal infection, is considered the fourth most common nosocomial blood stream infection. Nowadays, because of increased fungal resistance to antibiotics, the use of herbal medicine has gained particular attention. species are medicinal plants containing triterpenoid saponins, which are shown to have antimicrobial properties.

[The clinical condition and treatment of diseases associated with sudden death].

The Hokkaido Medical Society is a group of doctors and medical researchers in Hokkaido. Its purpose is to contribute to medicine and to the improvemen...

Conflicting results of robot-assisted versus usual gait training during postacute rehabilitation of stroke patients: a randomized clinical trial.

Robot gait training has the potential to increase the effectiveness of walking therapy. Clinical outcomes after robotic training are often not superio...

Improving efficiency in robotic theatres in the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust: a gynaecology theatres perspective.

Improving efficiency within the operating theatre is always a key concern when running a successful operating list. However, with robotic surgery, thi...

Employing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework to capture user feedback in the design and testing stage of development of home-based arm rehabilitation technology.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a framework to ensure that k...

American Psychiatric Nurses Association-Transitions in Practice Certificate Program: Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Caring for Psychiatric Patients Within the General Nursing Workforce.

The purpose of this article is to publicize an important new Web-based educational program. Recognizing the growing gap in psychiatric-mental health k...

Prediction of Lumbar Disc Herniation Patients' Satisfaction with the Aid of an Artificial Neural Network.

AIM: To identify key determinants of lumbar disc herniation (LDH) patients' satisfaction and to evaluate the efficiency of an artificial neural networ...

Discussion on robot-assisted laparoscopic cystectomy and Ileal neobladder surgery preoperative care.

To investigate the clinical applications of robot-assisted radical cystectomy with orthotopic ileal neobladder (RARC-INB) and make a preliminary summa...

Application of transit data analysis and artificial neural network in the prediction of discharge of Lor River, NW Spain.

Transit data analysis and artificial neural networks (ANNs) have proven to be a useful tool for characterizing and modelling non-linear hydrological p...

Hybrid wavelet-support vector machine approach for modelling rainfall-runoff process.

Because of the importance of water resources management, the need for accurate modeling of the rainfall-runoff process has rapidly grown in the past d...

Interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 in diagnosing neonatal septicemia.

Neonatal septicemia (NS) is a common cause of death of newborn infants, hence early diagnosis and treatment are of the utmost importance. However, lac...

Robotic Total Gastrectomy With Intracorporeal Robot-Sewn Anastomosis: A Novel Approach Adopting the Double-Loop Reconstruction Method.

Gastric cancer constitutes a major health problem. Robotic surgery has been progressively developed in this field. Although the feasibility of robotic...

Understanding Emergency Department 72-Hour Revisits Among Medicaid Patients Using Electronic Healthcare Records.

Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) have the potential to improve healthcare quality and to decrease costs by providing quality metrics, discovering ...

Postoperative Bleeding After Administration of a Single Dose of Rivaroxaban to a Patient Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy.

A 62-year-old man was admitted to hospital for elective revision of a left total hip arthroplasty. His history was significant for human immunodeficie...

A Retrospective Study to Evaluate Use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Patients Undergoing Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting.

Bilateral internal thoracic artery (BITA) grafting may be associated with a higher risk of postoperative deep sternal wound infection than monolateral...

[Long-Term Survival of a Patient with Colon Cancer with Peritoneal Dissemination].

This case involves a 76 year-old woman. A sigmoidectomy was performed for sigmoid colon cancer in August 2006. On histological examination, the cancer...

Efficacy and Safety Evaluation on Arterial Thrombolysis in Treating Acute Cerebral Infarction.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intra-arterial thrombolysis in treating acute cerebral infarction and further d...

An intelligent control framework for robot-aided resistance training using hybrid system modeling and impedance estimation.

This study presents a novel therapy control method for robot-assisted resistance training using the hybrid system modeling technology and the estimate...

Implementation of a multidisciplinary robotic centre in a high-volume university hospital.

INTRODUCTION: We describe the initiation of a multidisciplinary centre for robotic surgery including the implementation of robotic-assisted procedures...