surgery
Steelman VM. American Journal of Surgery, 201(2)
BACKGROUND
A retained surgical sponge is a serious medical error that results in negative patient outcomes. Radiofrequency (RF) technology has recently been introduced to evaluate for the presence of a retained sponge. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the detection of surgical sponges embedded with an RF chip through the torsos of subjects of varying body habitus, including the morbidly obese.
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February 2011 |
Keyword(s): Medical Errors, RFID, Surgery, United States
Nahai F. Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 31(4)
There’s something that a lot of us have been avoiding—something we may not be able to avoid much longer, and that’s actually good. I’m talking about converting to electronic medical records (EMR). Plastic surgeons, like other specialists, are going to have to get their arms around this new way of managing patient data—because, let’s face it, switching to EMR is the right thing to do for both our patients and our practices—yet it seems that many of us would rather avoid the change altogether.
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6 May 2011 |
Keyword(s): Analysis, Benefits, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, Implementation, Quality, Surgery, United States
Ereso AQ et al, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 211(3)
Background
Certain clinical environments, including military field hospitals or rural medical centers, lack readily available surgical subspecialists. We hypothesized that telementoring by a surgical subspecialist using a robotic platform is feasible and can convey subspecialty knowledge and skill to a remotely located general surgeon.
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September 2010 |
Keyword(s): Remote, Robotics, Surgery, Telemedicine, United States
Aziz SR, Ziccardi VB. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 67(11)
Telemedicine is the specialty of medicine that uses the evolving telecommunications industry combined with medical information technology to provide remote medical services. The use of smartphone telemedicine is an efficient and effective way for remote specialist consultation and should be considered by the oral and maxillofacial surgeon.
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16 October 2009 |
Keyword(s): Cellular Phone, Communication, Images, Medical Informatics, Smart Phone, Surgery, Teleconsultation, Telemedicine, Treatment, United States
Corbal GI et al, Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
The A Coruña University Hospital Complex is developing an expert system to improve the decision support for transplanted patients. The system will access the data collected during the monitoring of patients and generate a database of statistics that will aid health professionals in several stages of the transplant process.
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8 June 2010 |
Keyword(s): Decision Support, Patient Monitoring, Spain, Surgery, user interface
Yao W et al, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2010
RFID technology has been examined in healthcare to support a variety of applications such as patient identification and monitoring, asset tracking and patient-drug compliance. However, managing the large volume of RFID data and understanding them in the medical context present new challenges. One effective solution for dealing with these challenges is Complex Event Processing (CEP), which can extract meaningful events for context-awareness applications.
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11 May 2010 |
Keyword(s): Efficiency, Health Care, Hospitals, Patient Safety, RFID, Surgery, United States
Martínez-Ramos, Carlos et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 15(6)
A pilot study was done to address the efficacy of a General Packet Radio Service mobile phone-based telemedicine system used to improve follow-up after ambulatory surgery. The method involves sending images of surgical wounds or other areas from the patient’s home, to assess local complications and avoid unnecessary hospital visits. Ninety-six (N = 96) patients were enrolled in the study. The phone used was a Nokia 6600, which provides images in Joint Photographic Experts Group format. These images were sent via e-mail and visualized on a standard 17-inch screen of a personal computer.
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Published:
30 June 2009 |
Keyword(s): Cellular Phone, Digital Homecare, Robotics, Spain, Surgery, Telemedicine
Yermilov, Irina et al, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 207(4)
Background
Although there is high-quality information on the Internet, it is difficult for patients to identify high-quality Web sites from those with inaccurate or misleading information. Our goal was to determine specific characteristics of Web search results that yield high-quality information and can be discerned easily by patients.
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Published:
1 July 2008 |
Keyword(s): Health Education, Internet, Medical Information, Quality, Search, Surgery, Surgical Procedures
