Mobile Technology Support for Clinical Decision in Diabetic Keto-Acidosis Emergency

Smart Diabetic Screening and Managing Software, A Novel Decision Support System

Background: Diabetes is a serious chronic disease, and its increasing prevalence is a global concern. If diabetes mellitus is left untreated, poor control of blood glucose may cause long-term complications. A big challenge encountered by clinicians is the clinical management of diabetes. Many IT-based interventions such ad CDSS have been made to improve the adherence to the standard care for ch...

Cerebral oedema with coning in diabetic keto-acidosis. Report of 2 survivors.

Two children presented with a first episode of diabetic ketoacidosis. Initially both patients made a good clinical and biochemical recovery, but suddenly developed neurological signs consistent with a diagnosis of tentorial herniation. Cranial computed tomography showed signs of cerebral oedema in both cases with evidence of uncal and tentorial herniation in 1 patient, which resolved after the ...

News About the Treatment of Diabetes with Insulin

One of the most important advances in imsulin therapy has been the commercial production of highly purified single peak and single component insulin. The routine use of these pre9ara -tions have reduced insulin allergy and abolished insulin lipo­atrophy.  The subject of low dose insulin infusion in diabetic keto - acidosis in still controversial,but is based on sound theoreti - cal and experim...

Development of severe diabetic keto-acidosis with shock after changing interferon-beta into interferon-alpha for chronic hepatitis C.

Mobile Emergency Triage Support System

We are designing and developing a mobile clinical decision support system, known as MET (Mobile Emergency Triage), for supporting emergency triage of different types of acute pain presentations. MET needs to interact with an existing hospital information system, run on handheld computing devices and be suitable for operation in weak connectivity conditions (with unstable connections between mob...