Telemedicine has been used for over a generation, but application limited in rural areas by lack of payment, licensure issues, cumbersome video equipment, and challenges with digital communications. Early the COVID-19 pandemic, our family medicine residency made rapid shift to all telemedicine services patients.

BACKGROUND AND AIM Inadequately designed equipment has been implicated in poor efficiency and critical incidents associated with resuscitation. A novel resuscitation trolley (Resus:Station) was designed and evaluated for impact on team efficiency, user opinion, and teamwork, compared with the standard trolley, in simulated cardiac arrest scenarios. METHODS Fifteen experienced cardiac arrest t...

INTRODUCTION Critical Care Continuous EEG (CCEEG) is a common procedure to monitor brain function in patients with altered mental status in intensive care units. There is significant variability in patient populations undergoing CCEEG and in technical specifications for CCEEG performance. METHODS The Critical Care Continuous EEG Task Force of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society deve...

This proposal concerns automating the motion capture of humans. Motion capture is defined as “The creation of a 3D representation of a live performance” in the book Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games by Alberto Menache [20]. Specifically, we propose to develop a new framework for human motion capture based on recent advances in Bayesian object detection and trac...

Recording lectures for later use is a method used by instructors for some time as a means of helping students learn course material and prepare for exams. Except in distance education courses where recorded lectures may be necessary, the method has not been widely adopted, however, probably due to the extra effort and resources required to produce instructive recordings and make them available ...

AIMS To undertake a large scale survey of histopathologists in the UK to determine the current infrastructure, training, and attitudes to digital pathology. METHODS A postal questionnaire was sent to 500 consultant histopathologists randomly selected from the membership of the Royal College of Pathologists in the UK. RESULTS There was a response rate of 47%. Sixty four per cent of responden...

OBJECTIVE This research evaluated the training effectiveness of a novel simulation interface, a wearable computer integrated into a soldier's load-bearing equipment. BACKGROUND Military teams often use game-based simulators on desktop computers to train squad-level procedures. A wearable computer interface that mimics the soldier's equipment was expected to provide better training through inc...

Airway management in the intensive care unit (ICU) is a challenging procedure and is frequently associated with life threatening complications. The incidence of difficult intubations ranges from 10% to 22%, depending on the setting and the patients in need of endotracheal intubation. Multiple attempts are often needed to secure the airway. Despite the high risk for patients in the ICU setting, ...

New technologies continue to be developed to improve the practice of radiation therapy. As several of these technologies have been implemented clinically, the Therapy Committee and the Quality Assurance and Outcomes Improvement Subcommittee of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine commissioned Task Group 147 to review the current nonradiographic technologies used for localization a...

In order to perform real time image analysis, researchers are often required to purchase expensive processing equipment. The video frame grabber can account for the majority of the cost, with typical prices ranging between $700 and $3000. This prohibitive cost often discourages most college students and hobbyists from using these valuable learning tools. This paper seeks to address this problem...