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Healthcare Disaster Prediction with IoT, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning
Published in Adarsh Garg, D. P. Goyal, Global Healthcare Disasters, 2023
Priyanka Shukla, Akanksha Sehgal, Sonia, Deepika Sherawat
Robotics helps health workers to measure the temperature, taking the blood pressure of patients remotely which in turn has the least chance of infection to health workers during the pandemic situation due to infections like coronavirus. Robots can also be used to provide food to patients who are isolated to prevent the viral spread. Robots are operating through mobile applications or remote control devices for doing monotonous tasks that require least human communication, which facilitates the healthcare workers to make use of their skills like emotional availability to patients which robots lack.
The Endocrine System and Its Disorders
Published in Walter F. Stanaszek, Mary J. Stanaszek, Robert J. Holt, Steven Strauss, Understanding Medical Terms, 2020
Walter F. Stanaszek, Mary J. Stanaszek, Robert J. Holt, Steven Strauss
By producing hormones that are transported to various parts of the body, the endocrine system exerts what may be called a chemical remote control over the target organs or tissues. Previously believed to function independently, this system is now known to coordinate its actions with the nervous system in affecting the rates of individual metabolic pathways.
Teleaudiology
Published in Stavros Hatzopoulos, Andrea Ciorba, Mark Krumm, Advances in Audiology and Hearing Science, 2020
Piotr H. Skarzynski, Mark Krumm, Karolina Penar, Stavros Hatzopoulos
There are at least two types of synchronous modes. The first of these two modes relies only on interactive video between sites. The second mode uses interactive video with remote control software. This remote-control applications operated by the clinician connects with audiometric equipment and software programs at the client site. The connections between the clinician and the patient sites may be achieved using the Internet, satellite, computer networks, or even cell phone connections. Audiometric applications typically used for remote computing applications include hearing testing, video-otoscopy, hearing aid programing, and cochlear implant tuning. It should be noted that while remote computing provides an environment in which the clinician and the client can emulate a face to face encounter, this experience can only occur with well-trained support staff who are with the patient in the same location.
Review of research on path planning and control methods of flexible steerable needle puncture robot
Published in Computer Assisted Surgery, 2022
Kaiyu Wu, Bing Li, Yongde Zhang, Xuesong Dai
The remote control operation mode is mainly used by doctors to complete the control of needle tip feeding and rotation by operating the main manipulator of the robot through the master-slave manipulator system at the end position of the remote manipulator [85]. Glozman et al. [64] used the traditional PID algorithm to control the 3D movement of the needle tail of the flexible steerable needle. The control block diagram is shown in Figure 17. Its advantages are: simple principle, convenient control, strong robustness and independent of the specific model of the system. The input of the controller is the needle tip puncture error, and the control gain depends on the elastic modulus of the needle and other related parameters. However, the process of puncturing the soft tissue with the flexible steerable needle will be disturbed by the compound force, so the traditional PID control cannot meet the puncture performance well.
Telehealth delivery of remote assessment of wheelchair and seating needs for adults and children: a scoping review
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2020
Fiona Graham, Pauline Boland, Rebecca Grainger, Sally Wallace
Initial searching identified 2080 articles with an additional 13 articles later identified through hand searching reference lists and forward-citation searching (Figure 1). Removal of duplicates (n = 415) reduced records to 1665. Following peer screening of titles and abstracts irrelevant records were removed (n = 1624). All articles were in English. Many of these studies related to remote control and surveillance of wheelchairs and telephone-based pressure care monitoring. The remaining 41 articles were read in full with 28 of these removed because they were not about wheelchairs or seating (n = 18), were not research studies (n = 6), were about technology in the absence of people (i.e., any stakeholder) (n = 2) or were not about tele-wheelchair assessment (n = 2). The remaining 13 publications represented findings from 9 distinct studies (Tables 1–4). Two of these studies are published components of one doctoral thesis [32], and two conference abstracts present findings from the same study [26,27]. All thirteen publications are included in the results but are referred to by the 9 studies they represent in the following summary of findings.
The performance of an automatic acoustic-based program classifier compared to hearing aid users’ manual selection of listening programs
Published in International Journal of Audiology, 2018
Grant D. Searchfield, Tania Linford, Kei Kobayashi, David Crowhen, Matthias Latzel
Approximately 80% of hearing aid users benefit from some change in signal processing with change in environment (Ringdahl et al. 1990). This benefit may not be solely related to improved hearing of speech but also more difficult to quantify measures such as comfort and sound quality. The different programmes are either accessed manually by the user through a switch on the hearing aid or remote control or the hearing aid utilises some form of automatic classifier. Manual, user-based selection of listening programmes has a high degree of face-validity. It might be expected that individuals could easily switch a hearing aid to suit their environment. However, the practical application of manual programmes requires reasonable manual dexterity, normal cognition, motivation and noticeable benefit for the user. In addition, switches on hearing aids increase the physical size and complexity of the aids, reducing cosmetic appeal and potential reliability. Remote controls address these problems but require the user to carry an additional piece of hardware; somewhat addressed by the common use of smartphones and applications (apps) for hearing aids. It has also been shown that adults seldom switch programmes or are inaccurate in their selections (Cord et al. 2002).