Disposable materials enjoy annually steady growth in volume in the field of medical applications as surgical gowns, isolation gowns, and medical drapes which impede cross contamination from reusable protective apparel in a hospital. There are four levels of liquid barrier performance according to the American National Standard/Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (ANSI/AAM...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, an increasing number of dialysis machines lodge a blood pressure (BP) measuring device, whose accuracy has a clear implication for the patients' clinical management. METHODS An automated oscillometric sphygmomanometer (HD-BPM by Gambro Dasco) used during haemodialysis was submitted to both in vitro and in vivo tests, in order to evaluate some modifications aimed at improv...

The initial bioburden, count of colony forming unit (CFU) was determined on the locally manufactured non-sterilized surgical cotton and bandages. In all 489 tests were conducted on 163 cotton samples and 246 tests on 82 bandage samples. The surgical cotton showed an average of 198 microbes with a maxima of 287 and minima 94 whereas bandages showed an average of 179 microbes with a maxima of 268...

In this paper, we propose a 1-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (1D-CNN) based Blood Pressure (BP) estimation using Photo plethysmography (PPG) signals and their features obtained through Semi-classical Signal Analysis (SCSA). The procedure of the proposed BP technique is as follows. First, PPG are divided into each beat. Then, 9 SCSA for beats. addition, 5 biometric data used. Biometric...

In order to reduce the influence of differences in human characteristics on blood pressure prediction model and further improve accuracy prediction, this paper establishes support vector machine regression random forest for accurate measurement. First, photoelectric method is used obtain plethysmography signal (PPG) ECG signals from people different ages, value roughly estimated based high-qual...

Frequent blood pressure monitoring is the key to diagnosis and treatments of many severe diseases. However, conventional ambulatory methods require patients carry a (BP) device for 24 h conduct measurement every 10--15 min. Despite their extensive usage, wearing wrist/arm-based BP long time has significant impact on users' daily activities. To address problem, we developed eBP measure from insi...

BACKGROUND Intestinal ischemia is an abdominal emergency that accounts for approximately 2% of gastrointestinal illnesses. It represents a complex of diseases caused by impaired blood perfusion to the small and/or large bowel including acute arterial mesenteric ischemia (AAMI), acute venous mesenteric ischemia (AVMI), non occlusive mesenteric ischemia (NOMI), ischemia/reperfusion injury (I/R), ...

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