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Smart Transfemoral Prosthetic Socket with Motorized Cable‐Driven System
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This study presents an innovative transfemoral socket featuring a motorized cable‐driven system and a sensorized liner, designed to adapt to changes in residual limb volume while monitoring interface pressures. Users can seamlessly control the socket in both open‐ and closed‐loop modes via a customized mobile application, enhancing comfort and ...
Linda Paternò +7 more
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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2021 Lower extremity amputation due to peripheral artery disease (PAD) and diabetes (DM) is a life-altering event that identifies disparities in access to healthcare and management of disease.
Samantha Danielle Minc +6 more
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Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, 2022 Introduction This prospective cohort study aimed to identify the characteristics of patients with diabetic foot ulcer who are at higher risk of amputation and at increased risk of death.
Zulfiqarali G. Abbas +3 more
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Cancer, 1990 Six patients underwent translumbar amputation (TLA), a life-saving procedure, after standard modalities of therapy failed to control the progression of the disease. The primary diagnoses were as follows: pelvic arterial-venous (A-V) malformation, 1; sacral chordoma, 3; giant cell tumor of the sacrum, 1; and paraplegia with squamous cell cancer arising ...
Betty Razor Rn +6 more
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Amputation in emergency situations: indications, techniques and Médecins Sans Frontières France's experience in Haiti [PDF]
, 2012 PURPOSE: The decision to amputate is always difficult but becomes even harder in emergency situations, which usually present extra complicating factors.
D Pukljak +4 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Liquid metal “sloshing” by the robot's own actuator is proposed to improve the self‐healing performance. The proposed method drastically enhances the healed strength by decomposing the surface oxides and the impurities. The method contributes to the world's first demonstration of active self‐healing behavior performed by a life‐sized legged robot. Self‐
Shinsuke Nakashima +8 more
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