Technologizing and DigitalizingMedical Professional Skills for a Non-Invasive Ultrasound Theragnostic System – Technologizing and Digitalizing Kidney Stone Extraction Skills –

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norihiro Koizumi ◽  
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Deukhee Lee ◽  
Joonho Seo ◽  
Takakazu Funamoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Stone ◽  
Robot Vision ◽  
Medical Diagnostics ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Medical Support ◽  
Stone Extraction ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Medical Diagnostic

We have been studying the technologizing and digitalizing skills of the medical professionals in the medical diagnostics and therapeutics. The concept of technologizing and digitalizing medical skills involves extracting functions in medical professional skills and reconstructing and implementing these extracted functions in the mechanisms, controllers, and image-processing algorithms of the medical support system. In this paper, we focus on the kidney stone extraction skills of medical professionals by utilizing robot vision technology, and discuss a methodology for technologizing and digitalizing medical diagnostic and therapeutic skills for a non-invasive ultrasound theragnostic system.

Technologizing and Digitalizing of Medical Professional Skills for a Non-Invasive Ultrasound Theragnostic System

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norihiro Koizumi ◽  
Deukhee Lee ◽  
Joonho Seo ◽  
Takakazu Funamoto ◽  
Naohiko Sugita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Medical Robots ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
Robot Technology

Information and robot technology (IRT) is drawing increasing attention in the technologizing and digitalizing of medical professional skills. In fields such as manufacturing, high-precision tasks, not possible with human, skills have been already realized by industrial robots. The medical field thus expected to advance with progress in the development of medical robots able to provide diagnosis and therapy that are much more precise than those of conventional medical professionals.

Robot Vision Technology for Technologizing and Digitalization of Medical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Skills

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 541-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norihiro Koizumi ◽  
◽  
Hiroyuki Tsukihara ◽  
Shinichi Takamoto ◽  
Hiroyuki Hashizume ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Medical Diagnosis ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Diagnostic System ◽  
Robot Vision ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Medical Support ◽  
Diagnosis And Therapy ◽  
Medical Diagnostic ◽  
The Evaluation System

We have been studying the technologizing and digitalization of skill of the medical professional in the medical diagnosis and therapy. The concept of technologizing and digitalization of medical skills is to extract functions in medical skills, reconstruct and implement those extracted functions in the mechanism/controller of the medical support system. In this paper, we explain a robot vision technology for technologizing and digitalization of medical diagnostic and therapeutic skills for the evaluation system of the post operative pericardial adhesion using cardioechography and remote ultrasound diagnostic system.

scholarly journals Photonics of human saliva: potential optical methods for the screening of abnormal health conditions and infections

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jijo Lukose ◽  
Sanoop Pavithran M. ◽  
Mithun N. ◽  
Ajaya Kumar Barik ◽  
Keerthilatha M. Pai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Applications ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Clinical Specimen ◽  
Human Saliva ◽  
Medical Diagnostics ◽  
Optical Methods ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Fast Detection ◽  
Non Invasive

AbstractHuman saliva can be treated as a pool of biological markers able to reflect on the state of personal health. Recent years have witnessed an increase in the use of optical devices for the analysis of body fluids. Several groups have carried out studies investigating the potential of saliva as a non-invasive and reliable clinical specimen for use in medical diagnostics. This brief review aims to highlight the optical technologies, mainly surface plasmon resonance (SPR), Raman, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, which are being used for the probing of saliva for diverse biomedical applications. Advances in bio photonics offer the promise of unambiguous, objective and fast detection of abnormal health conditions and viral infections (such as COVID-19) from the analysis of saliva.

Postoperative percutaneous kidney stone extraction.

Radiology ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 778-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
A M Palestrant ◽  
B A Sacks ◽  
L A Klein
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Stone ◽  
Stone Extraction

scholarly journals Consent to Treatment and Anamnesis as Problem of Communication with Minor Patients in Healthcare Decision-Making

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Karina Palkova ◽  
Svetlana Semaka
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Decision ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
Legal Relationship ◽  
Healthcare Decision Making ◽  
Consent To Treatment ◽  
Insight Into

Lately lawyers and medical professionals pay more attention too the process of minor patient healthcare. The research shall address the issues of legal relationship between minor patients and medical professionals, consent to treatment of minor patients and communication problems including the scope of information which the doctor can provide to the minor patient’s relatives to protect themselves and patients. Legislation prescribes that the information provided by the medical professional to the minor patient must be not only easy-to-understand, but also be consistent with the patient’s age maturity. However, in Latvia, for example, there are no guidelines that specify how medical professionals can determine the patient’s maturity. In the course of provision of medical services to the minor persons legal disputes involving communiucation failures between the minor patients, their relatives, legal representatives and the doctors arise increasingly frequently. The research will look into issue of communication problems in healthcare. The aim of the research is to provide insight into challenges of legal relations betweem minor patients and medical professionals and communication problems in healthcare.

scholarly journals Finger Sweat Analysis Enables Short Interval Metabolic Biomonitoring in Humans

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Brunmair ◽  
Laura Niederstaetter ◽  
Benjamin Neuditschko ◽  
Andrea Bileck ◽  
Astrid Slany ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Course ◽  
Biomarker Discovery ◽  
Short Interval ◽  
Coffee Consumption ◽  
Medical Diagnostics ◽  
Clinical Routine ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Sweat Production ◽  
Interval Sampling ◽  
Sampling Procedures

AbstractMetabolic biomonitoring in humans is typically based on the sampling of blood, plasma or urine. Although established in the clinical routine, these sampling procedures are often associated with a variety of compliance issues and are impractical for performing time-course studies. The analysis of the minute amounts of sweat sampled from the fingertip enables a solution to this challenge. Sweat sampling from the fingertip is non-invasive and robust and can be accomplished repeatedly by untrained personnel. This matrix represents a rich source for metabolomic phenotyping, which is exemplified by the detection of roughly 50’000 features per sample. Moreover, the determined limits of detection demonstrate that the ingestion of 200 μg of a xenobiotic may be sufficient for its detection in sweat from the fingertip. The feasibility of short interval sampling of sweat from the fingertips was confirmed in three time-course studies after coffee consumption or ingestion of a caffeine capsule, successfully monitoring all known caffeine metabolites. Fluctuations in the rate of sweat production were accounted for by mathematical modelling to reveal individual rates of caffeine uptake, metabolism and clearance. Biomonitoring using sweat from the fingertip has far reaching implications for personalised medical diagnostics and biomarker discovery.

Management Skills and Leadership

2015 ◽  
pp. 182-205
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Modern Health Care ◽  
Peculiar Nature

The purpose of this chapter is to explore why juggling all the different and demanding roles of a medical professional is by no means an easy task. Perhaps the biggest challenge for doctors is time management and multitasking. Much of this is part and parcel of an ordinary doctor's life, but due to the peculiar nature and complex paradigms of modern health care services, special emphasis must be put on empowering fledgling medical professionals with such managerial skills. Resident medical physicians and surgeons should at least be aware of the countless opportunities available as well as how to get the best out of them.

Self-management: A patient’s perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 321-328
Author(s):  
Marieke M.J.H. Voshaar
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Medical Support ◽  
Psychosocial Effects ◽  
Expert Patient ◽  
Patient’S Perspective ◽  
Ongoing Relationship

This chapter is written by an expert patient who works with medical professionals. It covers a personal experience of being diagnosed and the psychosocial effects that arose from this period of time. It highlights the requirements for self-management in terms of retaining autonomy, models the definitions of self-management, and discusses the outcomes of different approaches. All chronic illness support, including self-management programmes, require an ongoing relationship between the patient and provider, including considerations of individual barriers; therefore the necessity for both social and medical support for patients’ self-management is also discussed, including differing needs for people from marginalized backgrounds, and suggestions on improving programmes is deliberated.

scholarly journals Trimming the need for invasive ventilation: pragmatic critical care during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. e237597
Author(s):  
Connor P Oates ◽  
Sarah A Goldman ◽  
Gennaro Giustino ◽  
Martin E Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Positive Pressure Ventilation ◽  
Positive Pressure ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Invasive Ventilation ◽  
Facial Hair ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Hypoxic Respiratory Failure ◽  
Religious Reasons

COVID-19 has challenged all medical professionals to optimise non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIV) as a means of limiting intubation. We present a case of a middle-aged man with a voluminous beard for religious reasons who developed progressive hypoxic respiratory failure secondary to COVID-19 infection which became refractory to NIV. After gaining permission to trim the patient’s facial hair by engaging with the patient, his family and religious leaders, his mask fit objectively improved, his hypoxaemia markedly improved and an unnecessary intubation was avoided. Trimming of facial hair should be considered in all patients on NIV who might have any limitations with mask fit and seal that would hamper ventilation, including patients who have facial hair for religious reasons.

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