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Introduction. Connected systems transmitting vital parameters could well represent a tool to shorten postoperative hospital stay while providing continuous remote patient monitoring and potentially detect the onset of complications. Our aim was to analyze the functionality of a transcutaneous biosensing data collection patch in morbidly obese patients. Materials and Methods. An adhesive patch (The HealthPatch MD™) was applied to patients' chests postoperatively. The patch was connected to a tablet via a bluetooth network to collect the heart rate, respiratory rate, skin temperature, and posture recognition data. The tablet conveyed data to a secure health data central server by means of a WiFi or 3G/4G transmission. Data were stored in a digital health platform to which health care professionals could connect. The evaluation focused on the volume, quality, and security of data transmission. A pilot phase involved 10 patients. Thirty-three additional patients undergoing bariatric surgery were included in the experimental phase. Results. The mean length of stay was 2.28 days (range 2-5 days). The mean time of patch application was 51 ± 25.2 hours per patient (range 19-139 hours), totalizing 1,683 hours of recording for the 33 patients included. During this time, a total of 7.562.531 data measurement points were collected and transmitted to the e-health platform via the patch. Two total disconnections and two partial disconnections were observed. The acquisition of patient postural data was unreliable. Conclusions. Connected telemetry for remote postoperative monitoring is promising. However, it is still limited by data transmission problems.Poor health care-seeking behaviour, access to services and availability of service delivery have implications for the health of the community. This study explored the perceptions, practices and challenges related to maternal and neonatal care in the teagarden community in Bangladesh. The study also identified service gaps and problems prevalent in teagarden health facilities. A qualitative study was conducted in five teagardens in the Moulvibazar district of Bangladesh. Six focus group discussions (FGDs) were completed with individuals from the teagarden community, and twelve in-depth interviews (IDIs) were performed with health facility staff working in those teagarden facilities. Misconceptions and harmful traditional practices were found to exist among the families in the teagardens, restricting them from accessing quality health care. Pregnant women are not aware of antenatal care, and deliveries are being conducted at home by untrained birth attendants. Unhygienic and harmful postnatal practices are used. Teagarden health facilities are not well equipped or prepared to provide good care. Inequities exist within the teagarden communities, with unregistered workers having even poorer access to care. Improvement of the quality of maternal health care for this marginalised community is needed to progress maternal health.Porous polyethylene (pPE) is a frequently implanted biomaterial in craniofacial reconstructive surgery. Its rapid vascularization and tissue incorporation are major prerequisites to prevent complications, such as material infection, migration and extrusion. To achieve this, several sophisticated strategies have been introduced and evaluated during the last 20 years. These include i) the angiogenic stimulation of the host tissue with epidermal growth factor (EGF), basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) or macrophage-activating lipopeptide-2 (MALP-2), ii) material modifications, such as increase of surface roughness and incorporation of bioactive glass particles, iii) surface coatings with growth factors, glycoproteins, acrylic acid (AA), arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD) peptide as well as components of the plasminogen activation system and autologous clotted blood or serum, and iv) the seeding with fibroblasts, chondrocytes, stem cells or adipose-tissue derived microvascular fragments (MVF). The majority of these approaches showed promising results in experimental studies and, thus, may be capable of improving the success rates after pPE implantation in future clinical practice.Background Skilled birth attendants must be competent to provide prompt resuscitation to save newborn lives at birth. Both knowledge and skills (competence) decline with time after training but the optimal duration for refresher training among frontline-skilled birth attendants in low-resource settings is unknown. Trichostatin A ic50 Objectives We assessed the effect of an innovative Helping-Babies-Breathe simulation-based teaching method using video-debriefing compared to standard Helping-Babies-Breathe training on 1) neonatal resuscitation knowledge and skills attainment and 2) competence retention among skilled birth attendants in Northern Uganda. Methods A total of 26 health facilities with 86 birth attendants were equally randomised to intervention and control arms. The 2nd edition of the American Association of Pediatrics Helping-Babies-Breathe curriculum was used for training and assessment. Knowledge and skills were assessed pre- and post-training, and during follow-up at 6 months. A mixed effects linear regression modelt and retention over 6 months in Uganda. However, more research is needed to justify the proposed intervention in this context.Background The association of metabolic syndrome and its components with the risk of thyroid cancer is unclear. Thus, we conducted a large-scale, nationwide, population-based, cohort study to investigate this relationship. Methods We studied 9,890,917 adults without thyroid cancer from the Korean National Health Insurance health checkup database from January 1 to December 31, 2009. Individuals with at least three of five components were diagnosed with metabolic syndrome abdominal obesity, hypertriglyceridemia, low high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels, elevated blood pressure, and hyperglycemia. Multivariate Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate thyroid cancer risk. Results During the average 7.2-years of follow-up, 77,133 thyroid cancer cases were newly identified. The thyroid cancer risk was higher in the metabolic syndrome group than in the non-metabolic syndrome group (HR 1.15; 95% CI 1.13-1.17). The association between metabolic syndrome and thyroid cancer risk was significant in thed risk of thyroid cancer in the Korean general population. Metabolic syndrome had a more significant with the risk of thyroid cancer in the obese group. Metabolic syndrome and obesity were associated with a higher risk of thyroid cancer in men but not in women.ABSTRACT In seeking to limit the number of new infections of COVID-19, governments around the world have implemented national lockdowns and guidelines about safe behaviours. Lockdown requires people to stay home and only leave when essential such as to purchase groceries and medication. In low- and middle-income countries, many of which have large proportions of the population living in precarity, lockdown forces millions of people to spend prolonged periods of time together in close proximity to one another and with limited resources. In many ways, efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 in densely populated communities with limited access to food, water and sanitation may seem counter-intuitive and even impossible under conditions of precarity. In this paper, we explore the barriers to implementation of lockdown rules in conditions of precarity. We conceptualise the structural barriers by drawing on the Theoretical Domains Framework to explain how these barriers influence adherence to lockdown rules. We argue that without sufficient support or intervention to help poor communities mitigate these structural barriers, adhering to lockdown rules is difficult, resulting in continued COVID-19 infections.The purpose of this study was to analyze brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) serum levels of patients with chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) and their clinical implication. Patients with cSDH who underwent surgery in our department between November 2016 and October 2019 were eligible for enrollment in the study. Patients with recurrent bleedings, traumatic brain injury, cSDH associated with other intracranial pathologies, and those with a history of congestive heart failure, renal or endocrine disease were excluded. We measured BNP serum levels pre- and post-operatively and at discharge. The BNP values were analyzed with respect to patient medical history and neurological condition. The Glasgow Coma Scale score and the modified Rankin Scale score classified the clinical and neurological condition at the time of admission and discharge, respectively. The data of 100 surgically treated patients with cSDH (mean age 73.2, range 42 - 94 years, male/female 3.51) were analyzed. Pre-operative BNP serum levels (BNP-1) were elevated in 67% of the patients (n = 67; median = 101.6 pg/mL; p 0.05). In addition, elevated BNP-1 showed a significant statistical association with the presence of atrial fibrillation (p less then 0.01) and antiplatelet and/or anticoagulant therapy (p less then 0.01). This study provides new evidence regarding BNP serum levels and their secretion pattern in patients with cSDH. Whether BNP-1 can predict the long-term functional outcome of patients with cSDH is being investigated in this ongoing prospective study.The management of prosthetic dialysis arteriovenous graft infection comprises antibiotic treatment and total or partial excision of infected grafts for infectious source control. Partial excision with graft bypass is an important graft preservation strategy for localized infection but carries a higher reinfection risk. Here, we report a case of prosthetic graft infection that was successfully treated with partial excision, a graft bypass procedure, and a portable negative pressure wound therapy system, PICO, applied to the open wound postoperatively. The combined approach may be a useful strategy that decreases reinfection risk, shortens the length of hospital stay, and preserves graft patency.There is a growing need for biomaterial scaffolds that support engineering of soft-tissue substitutes featuring structure and mechanical properties similar to those of the native tissue. This work introduces a new biomaterial system that is based on cm-long collagen fibers extracted from Sarcophyton soft corals, wrapped around frames to create aligned fiber arrays. The collagen arrays displayed hyperelastic and viscoelastic mechanical properties that resembled those of collagenous-rich tissues. Cytotoxicity tests demonstrated that the collagen arrays were non-toxic to fibroblast cells. In addition, fibroblast cells seeded on the collagen arrays demonstrated spreading and increased growth for up to 40 days, and their orientation followed that of the aligned fibers. The possibility to combine the collagen cellular arrays with poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEG-DA) hydrogel, in order to create integrated bio-composites, was also demonstrated. This study showed that coral collagen fibers in combination with a hydrogel can support biological tissue-like growth, with pre-defined orientation over a long period of time in culture. As such, it is an attractive scaffold for the construction of various tissues engineered to match their native oriented morphology.
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