Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2018 Background: Cerebral oximetry using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has well-documented benefits during cardiac surgery. The authors tested the hypothesis that NIRS technology can be used at other sites as a tissue oximeter during cardiac surgery and ...
Benjamin J Heller +7 more
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Screening of Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Empirical Mode Decomposition of Pulse Oximetry
, 2014 Detection of desaturations on the pulse oximetry signal is of great importance for the diagnosis of sleep apneas. Using the counting of desaturations, an index can be built to help in the diagnosis of severe cases of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea ...
Di Persia, Leandro E. +3 more
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BIOTEX-biosensing textiles for personalised healthcare management. [PDF]
, 2010 Textile-based sensors offer an unobtrusive method of continually monitoring physiological parameters during daily activities. Chemical analysis of body fluids, noninvasively, is a novel and exciting area of personalized wearable healthcare systems ...
Bini, Christina +23 more
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Smartphone Enabled Wearable Diabetes Monitoring System
IEEE AccessGlucose is a vital biomarker involved in numerous physiological and pathological processes, making its detection a key factor in diabetes monitoring. To enhance convenience, real-time tracking, comfort, and accuracy, glucose measurement techniques are ...
Shanthala Lakshminarayana +3 more
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Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2013 Background The aim of this study was to collect important data on the time of oxygen saturation change in relation to skin flap color alteration using non-invasive pulse oximetry to evaluate its ability to provide continuous monitoring of skin flap ...
Theddeus O. H. Prasetyono, Senja Adianto
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Unconstrained video monitoring of breathing behavior and application to diagnosis of sleep apnea [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents a new real-time automated infrared video monitoring technique for detection of breathing anomalies, and its application in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea.
Gravill, N. +3 more
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Evaluation of Oxygen Saturation by Pulse-Oximetry in Mouth Breathing Patients [PDF]
Acta Medica Iranica, 2010 Mouth breathing might not always result in hypoxia, but can contribute to it. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of mouth breathing on hypoxia. Based on a pilot study, 323 patients with mouth breathing were selected.
Esfandiar Akhavan Niaki +2 more
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Concordance among Measurements Obtained by Three Pulse Oximeters Currently Used by Health Professionals [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2014 Introduction: Oxygen saturation is considered as the 5th vital sign. Presently, there exist fixed and wireless pulse oximeters, being the latter most widely used in the last years. Some of them have no possibility of calibration.
Candelaria De La Merced Díaz-González +4 more
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Cerebral and cardiovascular effects of analgesic doses of ketamine during a target controlled general anesthesia: a prospective randomized study [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction: Ketamine is increasingly being used in various pain settings. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of an analgesic dose of ketamine in the bispectral index (BIS), spectral edge frequency (SEF-95), density spectral array (DSA),
Araujo, A. M. +3 more
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A Multilayer Monte Carlo Model for the Investigation of Optical Path and Penetration Depth at Different Perfusion States of the Colon [PDF]
, 2019 There is a great interest in monitoring the oxygen supply delivered to the colon. Insufficient oxygen delivery may lead to hypoxia, sepsis, multiorgan dysfunction and death.
Chatterjee, S. +3 more
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