Medical Monitoring Articles
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Set Up Your Clinical Trial For Success During The Holidays
The Holiday season often brings mixed feelings for many. While it can be a time of relaxation with friends and family for some, for others, preparing for this time means ensuring business continuity despite a typical slow down. This can be a source of undue stress if it is not suitably planned for. ...
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The Symptoms of Atrial Fibrillation
An array of symptoms can suggest the presence of the common heart irregularity Atrial Fibrillation. While it affects millions of people worldwide, it is also widely acknowledged that Atrial Fibrillation (AF) can be a condition that is relatively difficult to diagnose as the symptoms can be intermittent. Traditionally, AF is diagnosed by a physician checking the patient’s pulse, but ...
By Sky Labs
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What is Atrial Fibrillation?
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a cardiac condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Characterized by a rapid, irregular heartbeat or arrhythmia, it can potentially lead to other serious conditions and also increase the risk of stroke in patients who have AF. It is estimated that there are currently some 4.5 million confirmed cases of AF in the European Union and more than 2.3 million ...
By Sky Labs
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The evolution of photoplethysmography (PPG) within smart devices
As a technology, photoplethysmography (PPG) has been explored for almost a century, but it is only in the last few years that it has had a broader application beyond specialised medical settings. That has generally been driven by the evolution of smartphones, smartwatches and even smaller wearable devices such as smart rings. PPG is most commonly used in pulse oximetry in clinical settings ...
By Sky Labs
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How to Use Aluna To Better Treat Asthma Patients
The Aluna spirometer is an effective tool for remote patient monitoring (RPM). There are many ways that you can use Aluna to better treat asthma patients. Aside from being a quality product, Aluna has an app that makes recording spirometry results fun for children and beneficial for physicians. Here are some ways you can use Aluna to better treat patients who have asthma. The Use Of ...
By Aluna
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Monitoring Temperature in Medical Refrigerators
Medical Refrigerators are used to store temperature sensitive drugs and vaccines. Many vaccines require storage between 2°C and 8°C. Time spent outside of this temperature range are known as temperature excursions. Vaccines and drugs have something known as a drug stability budget, which is the total amount of time the substance can be kept outside of its recommended storage range. It ...
By AKCP
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5 Key Considerations for Patient Monitoring during a Pandemic
The use of patient monitoring has surged during COVID-19. Here’s what health providers should know about patient monitoring during a pandemic, and beyond. The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way care is delivered on a fundamental level. What was once an up-and-coming tool for improved care delivery — namely, advanced patient monitoring technology — is now at the forefront of ...
By EarlySense
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Why is Humidity Important?
Moisture matters. Just ask any runner who’s slogged through a steamy afternoon. The same can be said for medical professionals trying to analyze a person’s breath. Here’s what happens. Humidity Can Impact Accuracy and Damage Equipment During medical procedures, an anesthesiologist measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in a patient’s breath. They do this ...
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The Importance of Quality Management in the Medical Device Industry
As the world struggles to come up with a treatment for the COVID-19 virus, it’s important to remember all the amazing innovations taking place in the medical device and life sciences world: Implantable devices, like one that measures things like elevated filling pressure and weakened ventricular contraction, enabling physicians to detect risk of heart failure weeks in ...
By EtQ, LLC
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Medical Monitoring
Kamcap Fully Sealed Supercapacitor is used in a variety of patient monitoring applications and the Waterproof Supercapacitor can be used as a supplemental power source and short-term backup power source. As one of the most professional supercapacitor suppliers of commercial supercapacitor, we have been devoting ourselves in providing high quality supercapacitors for sale with competitive price. ...
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Glutaraldehyde – Health Hazards in Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
Glutaraldehyde is very similar to formaldehyde in its structure and uses in the healthcare industry. Chemically, glutaraldehyde exists at room temperature as a liquid, whereas formaldehyde exists under those conditions as a gas, which can easily be dissolved in water. Glutaraldehyde is often used as a substitute for formaldehyde because formaldehyde is now a suspect cancer-causing substance. ...
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A Commitment to Standards
An Interview with Philip Piqueira, Global Standards Leader for GE’s Industrial Solutions Business General Electric participates in standards development through its work on numerous committees and organizations. Philip Piqueira discusses why this business strategy and its continuance is crucial for GE. From your perspective as the global standards leader for General Electric’s ...
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Engineers torque technology to medics
Medical experts and sports scientists are becoming increasingly reliant on engineers as their disciplines become more and more technical. Mark Ingham looks at some of the projects his company, Sensor Technology, has helped behind the scenes. Like most rugby players I took my knees for granted until the day a twisting fall resulted in a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Fortunately these days it ...
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Vision-based 3D surface motion capture for the DIET breast cancer screening system
Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent forms of cancer in the world today. The search for effective treatment and screening methods is a highly active area of research. The Digital Image-based Elasto-Tomography (DIET) project is a new breast cancer screening system under development, where surface motion from the mechanically actuated breast is measured in 3D, and used as input to an inverse ...
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Drug adherence in Parkinson`s disease
Abstract Physicians modify drug schedules in response to their patients' clinical responses. Failure to relieve patients' symptoms or the emergence of drug-related side effects may reflect nonadherence to a prescribed drug schedule rather than incorrect therapeutic physician decisions. Using a medication questionnaire and a computerized medication event monitoring system (MEMS) to monitor ...
By Sensidose AB
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