Reflectance spectrometry is a fast and reliable method for the characterization of human skin if the spectra are analyzed with respect to a physical model describing the optical properties of human skin. For a field study performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine and the Freiburg Materials Research Center of the University of Freiburg, a scientific information repository has been developed, ...

3. You attend to a young male patient who has sustained a head injury during an alleged assault. He is self-ventilating and haemodynamically stable, but is agitated with a reduced Glasgow coma score, and will require intubation prior to CT scan of his head. His mother is in the relatives’ room waiting for a progress update. The nurse helping you suggests you could get consent from his mother be...

lion per hospital, depending on size.1 A report from the National Academy of Sciences, published in 2009, emphasized the need to apply a new approach to allow monitoring of each patient’s health status and to treat any malfunction in a manner that is tailored to that individual.2 Thus, the promise of PM, if fully realized, has the potential to significantly influence the nation’s health care. W...