Detection of the most influential variables for preventing postpartum urinary incontinence using machine learning techniques [PDF]
Digital Health, Volume 8, 2022, 20552076221111289Background: Postpartum urinary incontinence (PUI) is a common issue among postnatal women. Previous studies identified potential related variables, but lacked analysis on certain intrinsic and extrinsic patient variables during pregnancy. Objective: The study aims to evaluate the most influential variables in PUI using machine learning, focusing on ...
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Effect of routine pre-operative urethral catheterization of women undergoing minor gynaecological surgeries on urinary symptoms and urinary infections: a randomized control study [PDF]
, 2016 Background: The prevalence of urinary tract infection increases in young sexually active women, and women with previous UTI. Routine urethral catheterization performed for bladder evacuation before minor gynecological procedures and it is not clear ...
Abdelazim, Ibrahim A. +4 more
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Semi-Automatic Labeling and Semantic Segmentation of Gram-Stained Microscopic Images from DIBaS Dataset [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 In this paper, a semi-automatic annotation of bacteria genera and species from DIBaS dataset is implemented using clustering and thresholding algorithms. A Deep learning model is trained to achieve the semantic segmentation and classification of the bacteria species. Classification accuracy of 95% is achieved.
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Unusual complication of prolonged indwelling urinary catheter - iatrogenic hypospadias
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2016 Long-time urethral catheterization may be responsible for various complications such as urethral stricture, urethral fracture, urinary tract infections, and hypospadias.
Gunjan Garg +4 more
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UCANP: Urinary Catheter Alleviation Navigation Protocol Quality Improvement Project [PDF]
, 2021 Introduction: Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) can place significant financial burden on healthcare facilities, decrease quality of care and increase length of stay.
Cohen, Lisa +3 more
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Screening of Pneumonia and Urinary Tract Infection at Triage using TriNet [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Due to the steady rise in population demographics and longevity, emergency department visits are increasing across North America. As more patients visit the emergency department, traditional clinical workflows become overloaded and inefficient, leading to prolonged wait-times and reduced healthcare quality.
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Вестник урологииIntroduction. Currently, the classical management of acute urinary retention creates a certain discomfort for the patient and leads to explore alternative method of management, such as intermittent catheterization, including focusing on the patient ...
A. I. Volnukhin +2 more
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Evaluating comfort measures for commonly performed painful procedures in pediatric patients. [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction: Management of pediatric pain from medical procedures is of great importance for improving both patient care and experience. In this study, we investigated methods of managing acute pain in infants and children by studying the correlation ...
Daskalakis, Constantine +4 more
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Interstitial laser therapy of benign prostatic hyperplasia [PDF]
, 1999 The objective of interstitial laser coagulation (ILC) of benign prostatic enlargement is to achieve a marked volume reduction and to decrease bladder outlet obstruction and lower urinary tract symptoms with minimal morbidity.
Muschter, Rolf, Whitfield, Hugh
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Exploration of Surgeons' Natural Skills for Robotic Catheterization [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Despite having the robotic catheter systems which have recently emerged as safe way of performing cardiovascular interventions, a number of important challenges are yet to be investigated. One of them is exploration of surgeons' natural skills during vascular catheterization with robotic systems.
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