Emergency Undocking Curriculum in Robotic Surgery

Introduction Traditional instruction for robotic surgery is typically devoid of training that addresses the delineation of interprofessional roles for operating room personnel. An emergency undocking scenario was developed for robotic surgeons with the objectives of improving time to access the patient, provider knowledge of and confidence in emergency undocking, completion of predetermined critical actions, and delineation of operating room personnel roles. Methods Over one month, participants joined in three sessions: Session 1 - formative, Session 2 - review, and Session 3 - summative. Embedded standardized participants (ESPs) represented members of the interprofessional team. Prior to entering the operating room for Sessions 1 and 3, trainees were asked to complete a confidence survey and multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ) for knowledge assessment. Participants were randomized to one of two cases and participated in the reciprocal case for the final session four weeks later. Following Session 1, participants underwent an educational intervention, including the proper technique for emergency undocking, emphasis on operating room personnel roles, and hands-on practice. Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN) residents in post-graduate Years 2-4 and attending physicians with robotics privileges at Summa Health Akron Campus or Cleveland Clinic Akron General Medical Center were invited to participate. A total of 21 participants enrolled and finished the study. Results Among the 21 participants, there was a significant increase in the baseline level of knowledge (p-value=0.001) and in the confidence of surgeons when faced with an emergency undocking after the completion of our curriculum (p-value=0.003). Additionally, an improvement in the undocking times (p-value<0.001) and an increase in the critical actions performed (p-value=0.002) were observed. Conclusion The results of this study demonstrate that incorporating this curriculum into the training programs of robotic surgeons is an effective way to improve the surgical skill of emergency undocking

New Orleans: about face

New Orleans: About Face investigates the typography found in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The areas of St. Charles Avenue, Bourbon Street, the Warehouse District, Oak Street, the Lower Ninth Ward, Lakeview, Magazine Street, and Canal Street have very distinctly different styles of typography found on signage, store, windows, etc. Each area\u27s function dictates what the letterforms found in that vicinity look like. A unique kind of beauty is found in these fonts, hand-drawn letters, and three-dimensional signage. This investigation showcases a graphic designer\u27s perspective of New Orleans in compliment to the emotional attachments and memories other New Orleanians have of the city

Emigrare in portoghese. Traduzioni: José Maria Ferreira de Castro, Emigrantes; Miguel Torga, A Criação do Mundo; José Rodrigues Miguéis, Gente da Terceira Classe; Herberto Helder, Holanda e Os Comboios que vão para Antuérpia; Nuno Bragança, A Navalhada.

Per questo mio elaborato ho pensato di prendere in esame un argomento di grande attualità in questo periodo: l’emigrazione. Basta guardarsi attorno e nella vita di tutti i giorni possiamo vedere immigrati di ogni paese ed etnia. Questo fenomeno implica poi tutta una serie di problematiche di vario genere: politiche, economiche e sociali. Soprattutto queste ultime si manifestano con forme di razzismo e intolleranza, situazioni di difficoltà di convivenza e di integrazione dovute ai fattori più disparati (etnici, religiosi, ecc.). Ritroviamo tutte queste problematiche nei testi da me scelti per la traduzione, ossia, Emigrantes di José Maria Ferreira de Castro, A Criação do Mundo di Miguel Torga, Gente da Terceira Classe di José Rodrigues Miguéis, Holanda e Os Comboios que vão para Antuérpia di Herberto Helder e A Navalhada di Nuno Bragança

Integrated Planning and Scheduling in the RoboCare Project

No abstract availableThis article sketches the research of the Planning and Scheduling Unit of the ROBOCARE Project, aimed at designing and implementing distributed systems for generating user services for the care of the elderly. We will briefly outline the lines of research our unit is involved in

Commentary on: "P&S Requirements for ePartner-supported Astronaut-Rover Teams during Planetary Surface Operations"

The article (Grant, Neerincx, and Wolff 2011) introduces some considerations taken from the experience of the authors participation in the ESA project called MECA (Mission Execution Crew Assistant). The idea of MECA is to form a network of agents (both human and software), in which each unit, called e-partner, is capable of detecting and influencing the physical, cognitive and affective state of its respective human users. The article describes the three stages along which the project evolves and presents a list of system requirements among which authors highlight those that can be classified under the label of Planning and Scheduling (P&S). In addition to the P&S requirements the most interesting contribution of the paper is probably the concept of e-partners and the description of the cognitive workload model on the base of which authors think to build the e-partner agent. We subdivide the commentary in different parts. We first offer a slightly different perspective with respect to the role of planning and scheduling, then sketch an architecture for using planning technology in continuous loop with the humans, and then we formulate some questions to corroborate debate at the workshop.http://www.congrex.nl/11c05/Papers/Grant_commentary.pd

Robocare, un progetto pilota su tecnologie intelligenti per aiutare anziani in casa

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A Compact, Dual Channel Flow-based Differential Pressure Sensor with mPa Resolution and Sub-10 mW Power Consumption

In this work, we propose a single-chip sensor for the detection of two extremely low, independent differential pressures. The operating principle consists in measuring the airflow induced by the pressure through a channel of sub-millimeter cross-section [1]. The airflow is measured by differential thermal flow sensors, implementing a recently proposed drift-free offset compensation approach. Use of a low-noise, low-power readout interface, integrated on the same chip as the sensing structures, allowed the achievement of resolutions of 1.29 mPa, which are one order of magnitude lower than state-of-art devices. This performance has been obtained with power consumptions suitable for battery-powered applications

What role can growth curves play in forecasting with particular reference technology strategy?

This paper is the output from a collaborative research project with the Department of EngineeringPreviously, papers have been presented to the IWCS which have looked at the use of a limited set of equations to help predict the path of technology. The results were promising and indicated that a set of biologically inspired equations providing analogies for technology push, consumer pull and ‘me too’ type self fuelling growth had potential in predicting (a) the maximum speed etc. of a technology or maximum size of a market (b) the point at which a replacement technology should be invested in (c) understanding the market dynamics driving a technology. Currently an interview-based survey is underway to further investigate this hypothesis. This paper will present the preliminary results of this survey

Toward a general purpose software environment for timeline-based planning

Timeline-based Planning and Scheduling applications have been successfully deployed in various contexts. Often such applications use specific solving algorithms and cannot be easily applied for solving different kind of problems. Then, an open research issue for such planning modeling is the one of creating a software infrastructure with a controllable search engine. In this regard, this paper presents an attempt to synthesize such a software environment. The Extensible Planning and Scheduling Library (EPSL) evolves from the Timeline Representation Framework (APSI-TRF), a software environment supported by the European Space Agency. Goal of EPSL is to obtain a software architecture having the flexibility to focus on specific problem solving aspects. The paper is an initial report on this effort: it introduces the whole idea, then focuses on the definition of suitable heuristic functions, and presents experiments related to two domains generated by current applications

Interactive Planning for Space Applications

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