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IoT Application for Healthcare
Published in Punit Gupta, Dinesh Kumar Saini, Rohit Verma, Healthcare Solutions Using Machine Learning and Informatics, 2023
Monika Sharma, Hemant K Upadhyay, Sapna Juneja, Abhinav Juneja
Collected real-time health data obtained from sensors are displayed on the ThingSpeak and can be remotely monitored by computer and mobile devices. Figure 10.4 illustrates collection of health data relating to five different activities of 30 individuals, followed by exploratory data analysis (EDA). A normal healthy oxygen level range is between 95% to 100%. A normal healthy heart rate is between 60 and 100 bpm. Normal healthy human body temperature is 96°F to 99°F. The different BPM, SPO2 and temperature values for the five different activities are shown in the multivariate analysis in Figure 10.5.
Fever in the ICU
Published in Stephen M. Cohn, Alan Lisbon, Stephen Heard, 50 Landmark Papers, 2021
Juan M. Perez Velazquez, Sandeep Jubbal
The hypothalamus functions as the body temperature regulatory center. Fever results from the activity of endogenous pyrogens that intensifies prostaglandin E2 production in the preoptic region of the hypothalamus [2]. Individual differences in normal body temperature vary depending on several factors, including demographics, comorbid conditions, and physiology [3]. Although arbitrary, a body temperature of 38.3°C (101°F) or higher has been the generally accepted definition of fever. A lower temperature of 38°C (100.4°F) is considered a fever in the immunocompromised or neutropenic patient, as they may have a blunted inflammatory response preventing body temperature elevation [4].
Clinical profile in adult typhoid fever in patients at hospital X, East Jakarta, Indonesia, January–March 2018
Published in Ade Gafar Abdullah, Isma Widiaty, Cep Ubad Abdullah, Medical Technology and Environmental Health, 2020
Fever is stated when the body temperature is above the normal value (> 36.7ºC). Fever is usually the main complaint for people with typhoid fever. At first the fever is not too high, but at the second week the fever’s intensity grows higher. Usually in the morning the fever feels lower than in the afternoon or evening because the body’s metabolism decreases in the afternoon. Note that the typical type of fever in typhoid fever is not always there. This can be caused by treatment interventions or complications that occur earlier than the disease (RI Minister of Health 2006).
Heat distribution and the condition of hypothermia in the multi-layered human head: A mathematical model
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2023
Ahsan Ul Haq Lone, M.A. Khanday, Saqib Mubarak, Feroze A. Reshi
Variation in the temperature of human head exposed to external cold temperature at different qm (metabolic heat generation) values was plotted against time, as shown in Figure 2. The resulting graph indicates decrease in the temperature of the human head with prolonged exposure to cold environment. This is in consonance with the clinical finding of hypothermia, where the body temperature lowers by about 1–2 degrees than the normal and emerges as a medical condition. The speedy decrease in temperature of head on exposure to cold environment reflects the vulnerability of head to the hypothermia-induced impairment in the body. The variation of temperature in the human head in relation to axial distance from the core of the head also shows decrease in the temperature (Figure 3). This result garners support from the biological organisation of the head, in which the core is insulated from the surrounding environment by multiple protections, with scalp rather directly interfacing with the external environs. As a result, the scalp experiences the temperature more severely than the inner tissues/compartments of the head. The insulating layers of the core head are likely to succumb to the continued exposure of head to cold atmospheric temperature. Continuous exposure of head surface to the cold temperature gradually results in decrease in the temperature of core head 2–3 degrees lower than the normal body temperature. Such a condition is clinically marked as the manifestation of hypothermia.
Measures against COVID-19 pandemic – a single tertiary center experience
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
Orkun Ilgen, Bahadır Saatli, Tunc Timur, Hakan Kula, Selim Kandemir, Sefa Kurt, Erkan Cagliyan
Hospital staff (doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers) were advised not to go to risky areas. Staff was tested for COVID-19 and isolated for 14 days if they return from an outbreak area. Staff was divided into two groups, one of which was only responsible to take care of COVID-19 patients and the other group was for COVID-19-negative patients care. Staff who care for COVID-19 patients worked with surgical masks and monitored themselves for fever and symptoms (cough, dyspnoea) once a day. The body temperature was measured by digital thermometers. When entering the patient room, these staff also had to use personal protective equipment (PPE) including N95 masks, goggles for eye protection, face shield, gloves and gowns. Staff who had a fever or other symptoms were evaluated by infectious disease specialists.
Malignant catatonia: Severity, treatment and outcome – a systematic case series analysis
Published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 2022
Maximilian Cronemeyer, Carlos Schönfeldt-Lecuona, Maximilian Gahr, Ferdinand Keller, Alexander Sartorius
The most frequently described catatonic symptoms were mutism (n = 65, 55.6%), stupor (n = 47, 40.2%) and agitation (n = 46, 39.3%). Fever was reported in 98 patients (83.8%), mean body temperature was 39.0 ± 1.3 °C. Autonomic abnormalities appeared as tachycardia in 76 cases (65.0%), autonomic instability (n = 64, 54.7%), abnormal blood pressure (n = 60, 51.3%) and tachypnoea (n = 23, 19.7%). On average, heart rate was 127 ± 26 bpm, systolic blood pressure 167 ± 27 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure 96 ± 16 mmHg, mean respiratory rate was 30 ± 10/min. Other common symptoms were rigidity (n = 60, 51.3%), diaphoresis (n = 43, 36.8%), refusal of food/fluids (n = 29, 24.8%) and impaired consciousness (n = 26, 22.4%).