scholarly journals Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation India, Pandemic and Orthopaedic Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mukhopadhaya ◽  
Ashok Shyam ◽  
Janki Sharan Bhadani
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Care ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Academic Needs ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Orthopedic Surgeons ◽  
Future Health Care ◽  
Orthopedic Care ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Real Challenge

The covid pandemic has changed life for all of us in the past 1 ½ years. There are many challenges in our day-to-day working life. However, there are also many opportunities and one such opportunity has been to reach out to the experts through webinars and virtual learning classes. We are physically locked out, but not for our mental challenges and our academic pursuits. The Problem-during the Pandemic Providing quality orthopedic care is a real challenge during the current pandemic. The period of implemented government lockdown taught us many lessons. There was plenty of ups and downs during the surge. Many orthopedic residents put on COVID duty instead of ward work and lost contact with their subject. When one is not able to concentrate due to apprehension, anxiety and even fear of death, they find it difficult to understand the ABCs of orthopedics. Thus, the teaching program in all the departments was greatly hampered. This was not the story for a few days but for months together. With this crisis on our hands, the Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) is really had to hard to fulfill its responsibility of the academic need for the orthopedic residents which could help a large number of orthopedic surgeons and improve future health care. What was OREF is Looking for: Searching for Solutions to Compromised Academics and Compromised Healthcare? Most of them are trying to serve patients by reducing the health risks by implementing various uses of the Internet, many revolutionized digital technologies, artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, etc. We also learned to serve patients in remote areas through telemedicine. We are now moving forward in the quest to deliver and receive surgical care of the patient in other parts of the world through wireless technology. We also felt the need to do something for our academic needs as face-to-face educational activities, are hampered significantly. Exploring the revolution in digital technologies in ort

scholarly journals Surgical Interventions in Patients Hospitalised with COVID-19. A Review of Seven Months of Experience Working in a COVID-19 Dedicated Centre

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 395
Author(s):  
Justyna Rymarowicz ◽  
Michał Pędziwiatr ◽  
Piotr Major ◽  
Bryan Donohue ◽  
Karol Ciszek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Surgery ◽  
Surgical Procedure ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
Major Surgery ◽  
Surgical Specialty ◽  
Surgical Interventions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Overall Mortality

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has made changes to the traditional way of performing surgical consultations. The aim of the present study was to assess the need for surgical care performed by various surgical specialties among patients infected with COVID-19 hospitalized in a COVID-19 dedicated hospital. All surgical consultations performed for patients infected with COVID-19 in a COVID dedicated hospital in a seven month period were evaluated. Data on demographics, surgical specialty, consult reason, procedure performed, and whether it was a standard face to face or teleconsultation were gathered. Out of 2359 COVID-19 patients admitted to the hospital in the seven month period, 229 (9.7%) required surgical care. Out of those 108 consultations that did not lead to surgery, 71% were managed by telemedicine. A total of 36 patients were operated on while suffering from COVID-19. Out of them, only three patients admitted primarily for COVID-19 pneumonia underwent emergency surgery. The overall mortality among those operated on was 16.7%. Conclusions: Patients hospitalised with COVID-19 may require surgical care from various surgical specialties, especially during peaks of the pandemic. However, they rarely require a surgical procedure and only occasionally require major surgery. A significant portion of potentially surgical problems could be managed by teleconsultations.

YOUR FUTURE HEALTH CARE

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 79-79
Author(s):  
Anonymous
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Future Health Care

Development of computational thinking with on-line practices in time of pandemic: a possible road?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilson Pereira dos Santos Júnior ◽  
Simone Lucena
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Know How ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
On Line

We live in a society in which mobile and digital technologies are increasingly present in our daily lives and we cannot limit ourselves to knowing how to use them. It is important to know how to adapt them, personalize them and program them, if necessary, to solve our problems. Computational thinking is understood as the human ability to teach, humans or machines, to solve problems with the fundamentals of computing. Its development has gained space in education, formal and non-formal, through face-to-face practices. With the pandemic, the challenge arises to develop this skill with young people from high school in a public educational institution through online practices. In this article, we discuss the didactic design, based on the principles of online education, created for the development of computational thinking with online practices. The preliminary results indicate the feasibility of developing computational thinking from the perspective of online education.

Measuring reopening readiness: a universal COVID-19 index for US states

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunju Suh ◽  
Mahdi Alhaery
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Counter Measures ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Future Health Care ◽  
Pandemic Severity ◽  
Occupancy Rates ◽  
Bed Occupancy Rates

PurposeWhile United States is among countries with the world’s highest coronavirus infections, its approaches and policies to reopen the economy vary by state. A lack of objective criteria and monitoring toward satisfying the criteria can lead to another COVID-19 outbreak and business closures. Considering the pressing need to return to normalcy without a rebound of COVID-19 infections and deaths, an index that provides a data-driven and objective insight is urgently needed. Hence, a method was devised to assess the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and determine the degree of progress any state has made in containing the spread of COVID-19.Design/methodology/approachUsing measures such as the weekly averages of daily new deaths, ICU bed occupancy rates, positive cases and test positivity rates, two indexes were developed: COVID-19 reopening readiness and severity.FindingsA clear difference in the pandemic severity trends can be observed between states, which is possibly due to the disparity in the state’s response to coronavirus. A sharp upward trend in index values requires caution prior to moving to the next phase of reopening.Originality/valueThe composite indexes advanced in this study will provide a universal, standardized and unbiased view of each state’s readiness to reopen and allow comparisons between states. This in turn can help governments and health-care agencies take counter measures if needed as to the anticipated demand for future health-care services and minimize adverse consequences of opening.

scholarly journals Changes in medical education to help physicians meet future health care needs

2017 ◽  
Vol 206 (9) ◽  
pp. 378-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith N Hudson ◽  
Kathryn M Weston ◽  
Elizabeth A Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Future Health Care

scholarly journals Deep Learning Approaches to Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 10982
Author(s):  
Lakpa Dorje Tamang ◽  
Byung Wook Kim
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Digital Pathology ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Diagnostic Systems ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Preclinical Phase ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Future Health Care ◽  
Effective Diagnosis

Unprecedented breakthroughs in the development of graphical processing systems have led to great potential for deep learning (DL) algorithms in analyzing visual anatomy from high-resolution medical images. Recently, in digital pathology, the use of DL technologies has drawn a substantial amount of attention for use in the effective diagnosis of various cancer types, especially colorectal cancer (CRC), which is regarded as one of the dominant causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. This review provides an in-depth perspective on recently published research articles on DL-based CRC diagnosis and prognosis. Overall, we provide a retrospective synopsis of simple image-processing-based and machine learning (ML)-based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems, followed by a comprehensive appraisal of use cases with different types of state-of-the-art DL algorithms for detecting malignancies. We first list multiple standardized and publicly available CRC datasets from two imaging types: colonoscopy and histopathology. Secondly, we categorize the studies based on the different types of CRC detected (tumor tissue, microsatellite instability, and polyps), and we assess the data preprocessing steps and the adopted DL architectures before presenting the optimum diagnostic results. CRC diagnosis with DL algorithms is still in the preclinical phase, and therefore, we point out some open issues and provide some insights into the practicability and development of robust diagnostic systems in future health care and oncology.

scholarly journals Sexual Interaction in Digital Contexts and Its Implications for Sexual Health: A Conceptual Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Döring ◽  
Nicole Krämer ◽  
Veronika Mikhailova ◽  
Matthias Brand ◽  
Tillmann H. C. Krüger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sexual Interaction ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Sexual Encounters

Based on its prevalence, there is an urgent need to better understand the mechanisms, opportunities and risks of sexual interaction in digital contexts (SIDC) that are related with sexual arousal. While there is a growing body of literature on SIDC, there is also a lack of conceptual clarity and classification. Therefore, based on a conceptual analysis, we propose to distinguish between sexual interaction (1) through, (2) via, and (3) with digital technologies. (1) Sexual interactions through digital technologies are face-to-face sexual interactions that (a) have been started digitally (e.g., people initiating face-to-face sexual encounters through adult dating apps) or (b) are accompanied by digital technology (e.g., couples augmenting their face-to-face sexual encounters through filming themselves during the act and publishing the amateur pornography online). (2) Sexual interactions via digital technology are technology-mediated interpersonal sexual interactions (e.g., via text chat: cybersex; via smartphone: sexting; via webcam: webcam sex/camming). (3) Sexual interactions with digital technology occur when the technology itself has the role of an interaction partner (e.g., sexual interaction with a sex robot or with a media persona in pornography). The three types of SIDC and their respective subtypes are explained and backed up with empirical studies that are grouped according to two major mediators: consent and commerce. Regarding the causes and consequences of the three types of SIDC we suggest a classification that entails biological, psychological, social, economic, and technological factors. Regarding implications of SIDC we suggest to focus on both opportunities and risks for sexual health. The proposed conceptual framework of SIDC is meant to inform future research.

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