July/August 2015 Archives

August 17, 2015

Voices for the Voiceless: Rupal Patel is Creating Personalized Prosthetic Voices

Author(s)3: Mary Bates

Voices for the Voiceless: Rupal Patel is Creating Personalized Prosthetic Voices https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/header11.jpg 620 373 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png August 17, 2015 March 4, 2022

Maeve Flack is a spunky, spirited 8-year-old. She also has cerebral palsy and communicates with a speech synthesizer, using her eye gaze to control what she says. Her mother, Kara,…

August 17, 2015

New Dental Tech Says a Mouthful

Author(s)3: Leslie Mertz

New Dental Tech Says a Mouthful https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/header-IMG_9958.jpg 620 373 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png August 17, 2015 March 4, 2022

Above: Dentistry has evolved considerably, first with digital dental radiography, then cone beam computed tomography, and now intraoral scanning, which includes scans made with lasers, a series of LED lights, or…

August 17, 2015

Talking Sense

Author(s)3: Summer Allen

Talking Sense https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/header__Nicholas-Constant_BigEars_byBennyLo.jpg 620 373 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png August 17, 2015 March 4, 2022

Above: Nicholas Constant wearing the Big Ears. A man with a strange contraption behind his right ear paces a hallway. Wires trail from his ear to a battery pack tucked…

July 21, 2015

Open for Comments: "Rehabilitation Engineers, Technologists, and Technicians: Vital Members of the Assistive Technology Team"

Author(s)3: IEEE Pulse

Open for Comments: "Rehabilitation Engineers, Technologists, and Technicians: Vital Members of the Assistive Technology Team" https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png July 21, 2015 March 4, 2022

RESNA’s Rehabilitation Engineer and Technologist Professional Specialty Group (PSG 4) is requesting public comments on a draft white paper that seeks to define the current roles and responsibilities of the…

July 13, 2015

The Genie Is Out of the Bottle

Author(s)3: Colin J. H. Brenan

The Genie Is Out of the Bottle https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png July 13, 2015 March 4, 2022

In my July/August 2014 editorial in IEEE Pulse [1], I opined on the very real possibility of genetic editing of human embryos with the newly discovered CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system.…

July 13, 2015

Biomedical Research in Italy

Author(s)3: IEEE Pulse

Biomedical Research in Italy https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png July 13, 2015 March 4, 2022

From the Colosseum to the Roman aqueducts, Italy has historically been admired, envied, and imitated for its feats in advanced engineering. Beginning with Leonardo da Vinci’s military tanks and extending…

July 13, 2015

Fidelity and Validity in Medical Simulation

Author(s)3: Sarah Campbell

Fidelity and Validity in Medical Simulation https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/header1.jpg 620 372 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png July 13, 2015 March 4, 2022

The girl looks about 10 years old. She lies quietly on the emergency room exam bed, her eyes wide. Half an hour ago she was swinging—a little too wildly—from monkey…

July 13, 2015

Making it Real

Author(s)3: Roy Phitayakorn, Wilton Levine, Emil Petrusa, Bethany Daily, Ersne Eromo, Denise Gee, Maureen Hemingway, Rebecca Minehart, May Pian-Smith, James A. Gordon

Making it Real https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/header2.jpg 620 372 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png July 13, 2015 March 4, 2022

Simulation is any artificial construct that represents a real-world process. Technology-enhanced simulation in modern health care is growing exponentially, but the basic concept of “practice” to enhance real-world performance in…

July 13, 2015

A Different View

Author(s)3: Nadya Anscombe

A Different View https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/header3.jpg 620 372 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/ieee-pulse-logo2x.png July 13, 2015 March 4, 2022

Over the years, air safety has improved greatly because the skills of pilots, and the ability of teams to work together in a crisis, are regularly reinforced through simulator-based training…