POV-Surgery: A Dataset for Egocentric Hand and Tool Pose Estimation During Surgical Activities [PDF]
The surgical usage of Mixed Reality (MR) has received growing attention in areas such as surgical navigation systems, skill assessment, and robot-assisted surgeries.
Ktistakis, Sophokles+4 more
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Medical glove durability during exposure to different solvent agents: an ex-vivo experimental study. [PDF]
Background Medical professionals are constantly exposed to bodily fluids and sanitizing agents during routine medical procedures. Unbeknownst to many healthcare workers, however, the barrier integrity of medical gloves can be altered when exposed to ...
Herkins A, Cornish K.
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Effects of Frequent Glove Change on Outcomes of Orthopaedic Surgical Procedures - A Multicenter Study on Surgical Gloves [PDF]
Introduction: Intact surgical gloves are a barrier to microorganisms migration between surgical team members and the patient. The surgical gloves are changed at various junctures but the effects of changing gloves during surgical procedures on various ...
Nishit Palo+6 more
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: Post-operative infection is still one of the most common nosocomial diseases that can cause great losses because it will increase the length of stay, use of drugs, and reduce the quality of life of the patients.
Deni Maulana+2 more
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Role of the Surgical Glove in Modified Vacuum-Assisted Wound Healing [PDF]
Vacuum-assisted wound healing has been proven to be more efficacious than conventional dressings. Vacuum dressing has been frequently modified given the restrictions in resources available.
Shankar Ram Hemmanur+1 more
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Sensors for expert grip force profiling: towards benchmarking manual control of a robotic device for surgical tool movements [PDF]
STRAS (Single access Transluminal Robotic Assistant for Surgeons) is a new robotic system for application to intraluminal surgical procedures. Preclinical testing of STRAS has recently permitted to demonstrate major advantages of the system in comparison with classic procedures. Benchmark methods permitting to establish objective criteria for expertise
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Implant Prophylaxis: The Next Best Practice Toward Asepsis in Spine Surgery. [PDF]
Study designA literature review.ObjectivesAn evaluation of the contaminants prevalent on implants used for surgery and the aseptic methods being employed against them.MethodsPubMed was searched for articles published between 2000 and 2017 for studies ...
Agarwal, Aakash+6 more
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The Frequency and the Causes of Damages to Surgical Gloves in Orthopedic Surgeries
Background: During surgery, the surgery team is in contact with infectious and pathogenic microorganisms. Surgical gloves prevent the transmission of contamination between surgical team members and the patient, which is more important in orthopedic ...
Mohammad Ghasembandi+4 more
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Testing for viral penetration of non-latex surgical and examination gloves: a comparison of three methods [PDF]
Currently, there are no international standards based on microbiological methodology for testing the ability of medical examination or surgical gloves to prevent the passage of viruses.
Broyles, J.B.+3 more
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Extremal GloVe: Theoretically Accurate Distributed Word Embedding by Tail Inference [PDF]
Distributed word embeddings such as Word2Vec and GloVe have been widely adopted in industrial context settings. Major technical applications of GloVe include recommender systems and natural language processing. The fundamental theory behind GloVe relies on the selection of a weighting function in the weighted least squres formulation that computes the ...
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