A new portable 3-D gyroscope system for the evaluation of upper limb function

This study aims to develop a lightweight, portable and cost effective system for 3D motion analysis of the upper limb which can be readily applied within a clinical environment

Biomechanical motion analysis in the clinical environment : the dawn of a new era ?

Philip Rowe looks at biomechanical motion analysis and the work the department of Biomedical engineering at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (formerly the Bioengineering Unit), has played a key role in these developments over the last 50 years

Assessment challenges in the clinical environment

The assessment of students’ performance in the clinical legal education course presents a challenge for a variety of reasons. Factors to be considered are large student numbers, language barriers, a large and diverse client pool, students working in pairs, specialised units within the clinic, education and experience variances amongst students, different levels in students’ knowledge of substantive and procedural law, different levels of experience in clinical supervision and assessment, student expectations and prescribed exit-level outcomes for the course. The setting of parameters for assessment and mark allocation, as well as further methods of assessment, not currently used, are discussed

Accurate Real Time Localization Tracking in A Clinical Environment using Bluetooth Low Energy and Deep Learning

Deep learning has started to revolutionize several different industries, and the applications of these methods in medicine are now becoming more commonplace. This study focuses on investigating the feasibility of tracking patients and clinical staff wearing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) tags in a radiation oncology clinic using artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The performance of these networks was compared to relative received signal strength indicator (RSSI) thresholding and triangulation. By utilizing temporal information, a combined CNN+ANN network was capable of correctly identifying the location of the BLE tag with an accuracy of 99.9%. It outperformed a CNN model (accuracy = 94%), a thresholding model employing majority voting (accuracy = 95%), and a triangulation classifier utilizing majority voting (accuracy = 95%). Future studies will seek to deploy this affordable real time location system in hospitals to improve clinical workflow, efficiency, and patient safety

Gneuropathy: Validation process at clinical environment

Spinal cord injuries are one of the most traumatic situations with a major impact on a person's quality of life. This type of injury have a extremely impact in the performance of daily life activities not only due to motor alterations but also due to the appearance of neuropathic pain Throughout the rehabilitation process the evaluation and intervention methodologies are not very systematic and are not personalized. Thus, to bridge this gap, the VR4NeuroPain was developed a technology that associates virtual reality with a glove "GNeuroPathy". The glove "GNeuroPathy" allows the collection of physiological parameters, namely to identify the electrodermic activity (EDA) while the patient carries out activities in an immersive environment. The main objective of this article is to present the validation process of the "GNeuroPathy" in clinical context. "GNeuroPathy" was applied to a group of 17 individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury. The results showed that "GNeuroPathy" is easy to apply and is suitable for comfort and texture. Data were also collected from EDA and it was found that there is a significant difference in signal amplitude in patients with low and high functionality.preprintpublishe

Protecting Interoperable Clinical Environment With Authentication

The Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) is a standard dedicated to promote open coordination of heterogeneous medical devices in a plug-and-play manner. This carries the potential to radically improve medical care through coordinating, cooperating devices, but also to undermine the patient safety by giving rise to security vulnerabilities in the cyber world. In this paper, we propose an authentication framework as the first step to build an ICE security architecture. This framework is designed in a three-layered structure, allowing it to fit in the variety of authentication requirements from different ICE entities and of networking middleware from ICE instantiations. We implement the authentication framework on OpenICE, an open source ICE instantiation. Our experiments shows that the framework can help OpenICE mitigate the vulnerabilities caused by forged identity with negligible performance overload

Tips for teaching in the clinical environment

Catriona Bell – ORCID: 0000-0001-8501-1697 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8501-1697Item not available in this repository.Previously deposited in University of Bristol repository at: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/6285ed2b-613c-401a-9a2d-8808f83f7a76This article, the second in a series aimed at providing veterinary staff and students with tips and tools to enhance teaching and learning opportunities that arise in practice, discusses how to recognise those opportunities to maximise their effectiveness.https://doi.org/10.1136/inp.g212136pubpub

Bridging the theory practice gap: an innovative approach to praxis in professional education

The notion of a ‘theorypractice gap’ in nursing has been the subject of debate for many years and is well documented in the nursing literature (Crane, 1991; Landers, 2000). McCaugherty (1991) explains the ‘gap’ using the symbolobject dichotomy as an analogy, that is the symbol such as a picture or an image is not the same as the actual object. Thus, what is taught in the classroom is not the same as that which is experienced in the clinical environment. Russell (1967) identifies the former as ‘knowledge by description’ and the latter, ‘knowledge by acquaintance’

LGBTQ Inclusiveness in the Primary Care Setting

Despite public health efforts in recent years to provide additional care to the LGBTQ community, many health disparities still exist. It is difficult to address these problems due to the lack of organized data being received from health care institutions. Many medical offices have failed to provide a comfortable environment for LGBTQ individuals. This project illustrates a presentation given to staff at a primary care office on how to make the clinical environment more inclusive to LGBTQ individuals in order to provide adequate care.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1382/thumbnail.jp

A foot drop compensation device based on surface multi-field functional electrical stimulation—Usability study in a clinical environment

Functional electrical stimulation applies electrical pulses to the peripheral nerves to artificially achieve a sensory/motor function. When applied for the compensation of foot drop it provides both assistive and therapeutic effects. Multi-field electrodes have shown great potential but may increase the complexity of these systems. Usability aspects should be checked to ensure their success in clinical environments. We developed the Fesia Walk device, based on a surface multi-field electrode and an automatic calibration algorithm, and carried out a usability study to check the feasibility of integrating this device in therapeutic programs in clinical environments. The study included 4 therapists and 10 acquired brain injury subjects (8 stroke and 2 traumatic brain injury).The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Part of this study was supported by the European Regional Development Funds through the Interreg Sudoe Program, project SOE1/P1/F0370