Predicting the post-operative pathway: Do clinical teams in vascular surgical units have a shared mental model?

Shared Mental Models for Human-Robot Teams

Shared mental models have been shown to improve human team performance. We thus conjecture that shared mental models (SMMs) integrated into cognitive robotic architectures might also improve the performance of mixed humanrobot teams. To date, very little research has focused on developing appropriate computational constructs that can support domain independence and generalizability, while also ...

Post-operative surgical wound infection

The occurrence of post-operative wound infection was studied respectively over an eight month period in the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur. One hundred and seventy four (3.4%) surgical wounds out of 5129 operations became infected. The clean wound infection rate was 2.9%, rising to 5.4% and 12.2% for clean-contaminated and contaminated surgical wounds respectively. Of the wound infections, 8...

Predicting the onset of delirium in the post-operative patient.

The number of people over 65 is increasing and those over 65 requiring surgery will likewise increase. Post-operative delirium (POD) affects up to 47% of patients undergoing surgery and is more prevalent in older people. Importantly, POD is associated with increased morbidity, mortality, length of stay and care home placement. There is evidence that specialist geriatrician input reduces POD but...

Measuring and Predicting Shared Situation Awareness in Teams

In order to improve our understanding of situation awareness (SA) in teams performing in technologically advanced command, control, and communications (C3) operations, researchers need to develop valid approaches to assess both individual and shared SA. We investigated SA in an interdisciplinary military rescue operation training exercise. For this study, we developed procedures to measure the ...

Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Care of Surgical Patients