IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Articles
Pathologic blood samples tolerate exposure to vibration and high turbulence in simulated drone flights, but plasma samples should be centrifuged after flight.
Karl Arne Johannessen, Nina Kristin Steen Wear, Karin Toska, Morten Hansbø, Jens Petter Berg, Erik Fosse
Abstract: Most of the previous studies of drone transport of blood samples examined normal blood samples transported under tranquil air conditions. We studied the effects of 1- and 2-hour drone flights using random vibration and turbulence simulation (10-30 g-force) on...
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Posted on 23 JAN 2021
Articles
Early detection of Acute Chest Syndrome through electronic recording and analysis of auscultatory percussion
Acute chest syndrome (ACS) is the leading cause of death among people with sickle cell disease. ACS is clinically defined and diagnosed by the presence of a new pulmonary infiltrate on chest imaging with accompanying fever and respiratory symptoms like...
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Posted on 6 OCT 2020
Articles, Published Articles
Healthcare Event and Activity Logging
Part of the Special Issue on Advanced Internet of Things in Personalized Healthcare Systems: Validation, Analysis and Utilization
The health of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can change frequently and inexplicably. Crucial events and activities responsible for these changes...
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Posted on 19 SEP 2018
Articles, Published Articles
Developing a Policy Flight Simulator to Facilitate the Adoption of an Evidence-based Intervention
Michael J. Pennock, Zhongyuan Yu, Karen B. Hirschman, Kara Pepe, Mark V. Pauly, Mary D. Naylor, William B. Rouse
Abstract
While the use of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) has been advocated by the medical research community for quite some time, uptake of these interventions by healthcare providers has been slow. One possible explanation is that it is challenging for providers to...
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Posted on 14 MAY 2018
Featured Articles
Clinical Documents Clustering Based on Medication/Symptom Names Using Multi-View Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Clinical documents are rich free-text data sources containing valuable medication and symptom information, which have a great potential to improve health care. In this paper, we build an integrating system for extracting medication names and symptom names from clinical notes....
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Posted on 24 AUG 2015