Preparation • Introduce yourself to the patient and explain what you are doing and why. If possible, provide privacy. • Position the patient comfortably and make sure the surrounding area is clean and tidy before you start. • Check the patient’s care notes to update yourself on any changes in the patient’s condition and to make sure the dressing is due to be changed. • Wash your hands and put o...

The paper presents an algorithm for the automatic segmentation of point clouds from low cost sensors for object interpretation in indoor environments. This algorithm is considering the possible noisy character of the 3D point clouds and is using an iterative RANSAC approach for the segmentation task. For evaluating the robustness, it is applied on two indoor datasets, acquired with the Google T...

In trolley dilemmas a train is about to kill several victims who could be saved if instead a different victim is harmed. A number of theories have been proposed which assume that permissibility judgments in these harm-based moral dilemmas are mediated by an analysis of the underlying causal structure. For example, it has been postulated that it is permissible to harm people as a side effect but...

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...

A significant amount of professional time is wasted during a medical ward round retrieving patient notes from the ward trolley. If the efficiency of this non-clinical, non-functional interaction could be improved it would save time, maintain continuity and have financial implications. One identified constraint was the structure of the traditional ward trolley; a stationary filing tray with vert...

The purpose of this study was to compare the traditional height-adjustable shower trolley with the Carevo, a shower trolley with a new design. Compared to the traditional height-adjustable shower trolley, the Carevo has higher side supports, indented curves on the long sides, handles, arrow-shaped ends, and a mattress with a flexible mid-section. In this study four nurses carried out five showe...

Many claim that the “Trolley problem” is hindering the introduction of self-driving cars. Self-driving cars must, as all safety-critical products, be designed such that the probability of morally hard (“trolley”) situations is acceptably low. In this paper we argue that the introduction of self-driving cars can solve this ethical dilemma. In short the solution to the trolley problem is that a s...

A numerical method is described that has been used for predicting the dynamic behaviour of a trolley wire overhead contact system when disturbed by the pantograph on the train roof. The vertical motion of the trolley wire is given by the solution of a fourth order partial differential equation and that of the pantograph is given by the solution of ordinary differential equations, these two solu...

Abstract: A four-wheeled autonomic trolley of obstacle avoidance is controlled by way of front-wheel steering and backwheel driving. Three pairs of ultrasonic sensors are, respectively, installed on the left front, front and right front of the trolley in order to measure the distances between obstacles and the trolley. Its control strategy is derived from the concept of path planning for mobile...