Pain Management

Advanced Compliant Anti-Gravity Robot System for Lumbar Stabilization Exercise Using Series Elastic Actuator.

: The lumbar stabilization exercise is one of the most recommended treatments in medical professionals for patients suffering from low back pain. However, because lumbar stabilization exercise is calisthenics, it is challenging to perform because of the body load of the elderly, disabled, and patients that lack muscle strength. Additionally, it interferes with the effect of exercise because it can...

Computer mediated automatic detection of pain-related behavior: prospect, progress, perils.

Pain is often characterized as a fundamentally subjective phenomenon; however, all pain assessment reduces the experience to observables, with strengths and limitations. Most evidence about pain derives from observations of pain-related behavior. There has been considerable progress in articulating the properties of behavioral indices of pain; especially, but not exclusively those based on facial ...

Predicting anesthetic infusion events using machine learning.

Recently, research has been conducted to automatically control anesthesia using machine learning, with the aim of alleviating the shortage of anesthes...

Adding Dexmedetomidine to Bupivacaine in Ultrasound-guided Thoracic Paravertebral Block for Pain Management after Upper Abdominal Surgery: A Double-blind Randomized Controlled Trial.

BACKGROUND: Paravertebral blocks are one of the possible postoperative pain management modalities after laparotomy. Adjuvants to local anesthetics, in...

Process performance of a new liquid medication dispensing robot.

OBJECTIVES: Liquid medications provide an alternative to splitting pills and dosages by measuring an amount of liquid rather than crushing tablets or ...

Preclinical Evaluation of a New ECCO2R Setup.

Low flow extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) is a promising approach to correct hypercapnic lung failure, facilitate lung protective ventil...

A Comparison of Natural Language Processing Methods for the Classification of Lumbar Spine Imaging Findings Related to Lower Back Pain.

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The use of natural language processing (NLP) in radiology provides an opportunity to assist clinicians with phenotyping pati...

A lightweight double-channel depthwise separable convolutional neural network for multimodal fusion gait recognition.

Gait recognition is an emerging biometric technology that can be used to protect the privacy of wearable device owners. To improve the performance of ...

Feasibility study protocol of the PainChek app to assess the efficacy of a social robot intervention for people with dementia.

AIM: This study aims to test the feasibility of the PainChek app to assess pain for people with dementia living in residential aged care facilities (R...

ResGANet: Residual group attention network for medical image classification and segmentation.

In recent years, deep learning technology has shown superior performance in different fields of medical image analysis. Some deep learning architectur...

Learning Spatial-Spectral-Temporal EEG Representations with Deep Attentive-Recurrent-Convolutional Neural Networks for Pain Intensity Assessment.

Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based quantitative pain measurement is valuable in the field of clinical pain treatment, providing objective pain intensity...

Non-human primate epidural ECoG analysis using explainable deep learning technology.

With the development in the field of neural networks,(XAI), is being studied to ensure that artificial intelligence models can be explained. There are...

Ultrasound-guided quadratus lumborum block for perioperative analgesia in robot-assisted partial nephrectomy: a randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Recently, several case reports and limited randomized studies have shown that quadratus lumborum blocks (QLB) are effective in providing p...

Toward personalized medicine for pharmacological interventions in neonates using vital signs.

Vital signs, such as heart rate and oxygen saturation, are continuously monitored for infants in neonatal care units. Pharmacological interventions ca...

Comparison of patient controlled epidural infusion versus physician controlled epidural infusion for postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing major abdominal surgeries.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: For effective patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) without many systemic effects after major intra-abdominal surgeries, o...

A Deep Learning-Based Text Classification of Adverse Nursing Events.

Adverse nursing events occur suddenly, unpredictably, or unexpectedly during course of clinical diagnosis and treatment processes in the hospitals. Th...

Rectus sheath block for acute pain management after robot-assisted prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) is a favored surgical approach for treating prostate cancer. However, RALP does not decre...

Laparoscopic pectopexy for patients with intraabdominal adhesions, lumbar spinal procedures, and other contraindications to sacrocolpopexy: a case series.

Laparoscopic pectopexy is an alternative to sacrocolpopexy utilizing fixation points in the anterior pelvis for vaginal vault suspension; it was origi...

TMJOAI: An Artificial Web-Based Intelligence Tool for Early Diagnosis of the Temporomandibular Joint Osteoarthritis.

Osteoarthritis is a chronic disease that affects the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), causing chronic pain and disability. To diagnose patients sufferin...

Proteome-Informed Machine Learning Studies of Cocaine Addiction.

No anti-cocaine addiction drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration despite decades of effort. The main challenge is the intricate ...