Tactile sensing feedback for medical palpation in Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MIS)

Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MIS) are major operations through small incisions often using miniaturized high-tech systems, to minimize the trauma of surgical procedure. However such procedures deprive surgeons one of their most important ability-ability to touch and palpate. It also limits the dexterity, depth of perception and hand - eye coordination. The study focuses on the development of an effective mechanism of relaying the information across the surgical area to the surgeon through a tactile sensing feedback system. The design sensor system should be ergonomically sound, has high reproducibility of results so that it could be fitting for medical use. The project utilizes nine (9) circular tactile sensors formed in a 3x3 matrix to be interfaced data acquisition system through a Zilog Z8 Encore! 6421. The pressure distribution sensed by the feedback system will generate a 3D image to be shown in the constructed Graphical User Interface (GUI)

2022 World Hypertension League, Resolve To Save Lives and International Society of Hypertension dietary sodium (salt) global call to action

This fact sheet and global call to action is aimed at nutrition, hypertension, cardiovascular and other health care clinicians and scientists, and health advocates, as well as the organizations to which they belong. The ‘call’ is to align these audiences with the facts on: the burden of disease and key evidence supporting reductions in dietary sodium, the consistent recommendations for reducing dietary sodium from unbiased and comprehensive health and scientific reviews, the current levels of sodium intake, the cost savings expected from reducing high dietary sodium, the sources of controversial opinions, the current recommended approaches to reduce dietary sodium, and how to stay up to date with evidence on how to reduce dietary sodium and the evolving research on the adverse health effects of a high sodium intake. Health, nutrition, hypertension and cardiovascular organizations, and their members, need to become more engaged and advocate for reductions in dietary sodium, and for a greater priority to be given to high quality research on dietary sodium. The World Hypertension League, Resolve to Save Lives and International Society of Hypertension are committed to support reductions in dietary sodium as a high priority