Two young adults with severe facial injuries were receiving care in the trauma/surgical intensive care unit at a tertiary care, level I trauma center in the southeastern United States. Both patients were able to communicate by texting on their cellphones to family members, friends, and caregivers in the intensive care unit. Patients who are awake and already have experience texting with a smart...

IntroductionKnee joint distraction (KJD) is a surgical technique for treatment of severe knee osteoarthritis at relatively young age. In the absence devices intended KJD, this procedure has only been performed with another use. collaboration patients, clinicians and medical device experts, dedicated (DD) KJD was developed.ObjectivesTo compare user-friendliness between new DD previously used con...

Leadless pacemakers will most likely be the future of cardiac pacing. Leadless pacing employs a singlechamber system to pace only the right ventricle and is fully self-contained, which eliminates the need for leads. These systems, implanted by using a transcatheter sheath, are indicated for patients who need right ventricular pacing only. These devices enable patients to avoid lead-related comp...

With increase in ageing population, health care market keeps growing. There is a need for monitoring of health issues. Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) consists of wireless sensors attached on or inside human body for monitoring vital health related problems e.g, Electro Cardiogram (ECG), Electro Encephalogram (EEG), ElectronyStagmography (ENG) etc. Due to life threatening situations, timely s...

OBJECTIVE We sought to identify primary care providers' interest in, as well as perceived barriers and facilitators to, using novel telemedicine technologies (e.g., smartphones) for managing chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) in older adults. DESIGN Six focus groups were conducted with 25 primary care providers. SETTING Two academically affiliated primary care practices serving older adults wit...

Ventilator care is synonymous with Intensive care. These devices are electromechanical and as such can fail. Most failures without patient incident, injury, harm. The FDA requires manufacturers who learn of malfunction, injury or death while operating their product to report the agency via Manufacturer User Facility Device Experience database. I reviewed 500 recent events reported found an incr...

AIM To identify factors that influenced trained asthma practice nurses' inhaler device selection and the relative importance they placed on these factors in clinical practice. METHOD Questionnaires were sent to 1,500 randomly selected, trained asthma nurses working in primary care. A second, open-ended questionnaire was sent to 300 of these nurses. RESULTS The response rate was 38% (573) fo...