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Kim H, Kim TM, Choi SW, Ko T. Thermal imaging and deep learning-based fit-checking for respiratory protection. Sci Rep 2024; 14:24407. [PMID: 39420011 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-52999-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/25/2024] [Indexed: 10/19/2024] Open
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This study develops an artificial intelligence model to quickly and easily determine correct mask-wearing in real time using thermal videos that ascertained temperature changes caused by air trapped inside the mask. Five types of masks approved by the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety were worn in four different ways across 50 participants, generating 5000 videos. The results showed that 3DCNN outperformed ConvLSTM in both binary and multi-classification for mask wearing methods, with the highest AUROC of 0.986 for multi-classification. Each mask type scored AUROC values > 0.9, with KF-AD being the best classified. This improved use of thermal imaging and deep learning for mask fit-checking could be useful in high-risk environments. It can be applied to various mask types, which enables easy generalizability and advantages in public and occupational health and healthcare system.
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- Hyunjin Kim
- Department of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea
- Department of Medical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Medical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Veterans Health Service Medical Center, 53 Jinhwangdo-ro 61-gil, Gangdong-gu, Seoul, 05368, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Medical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea.
- CMC Institute for Basic Medical Science, The Catholic Medical Center of The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea.
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Galdino-Júnior H, Martins de Oliveira Segundo E, Gomes Malaquias S, Vinaud MC, Pereira LV, Guimarães RA, Bachion MM. Effect of Heated Saline Solution on Pain Intensity, Wound Bed Temperature, and Comfort during Chronic Wound Dressing Changes: Crossover Randomized Clinical Trial. Adv Skin Wound Care 2024; 37:1-8. [PMID: 38648246 DOI: 10.1097/asw.0000000000000137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of heated saline solution during wound cleaning on the intensity of pain related to the procedure, the temperature of the wound bed, and the comfort of patients with chronic wounds. Further, to investigate patient preference in relation to the temperature of the solution used for cleaning. METHODS Crossover, single-blind, clinical trial with 32 people with chronic wounds. Providers cleaned the wounds with room temperature and heated saline solution. Participants were randomized into group 1 A/B (heated solution first, room temperature second) or group 2 B/A (room temperature solution first, heated solution second), with a 10-minute washout period. Investigators evaluated pain intensity, wound bed temperature, and patient-reported comfort and preference. RESULTS The heated solution was preferred (P = .04) and more often referred to as comfortable (P = .04) by the participants. There was no difference in pain intensity before and after cleaning with room temperature (2.03; P = .155) and heated saline (2.25; P = .44). The heated solution increased the temperature of the wound bed by 0.5 °C. CONCLUSIONS Although heating saline solution could be an important comfort measure during dressing changes, quantitatively, the temperature of the solution did not significantly change the temperature of the wound bed nor the intensity of pain patients experienced.
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- Hélio Galdino-Júnior
- Hélio Galdino-Júnior, MPH, RN, is Associate Professor, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. Emilson Martins de Oliveira Segundo, MSN, RN, is ICU Nursing Coordinator, Hospital Ortopédico Promed-Hapvida NotreDame Intermédica, Goiânia. Also at the Federal University of Goiás, Suelen Gomes Malaquias, MSN, RN, is Adjunct Professor; Marina Clare Vinaud, PhD, is Associate Professor; Lilian Varanda Pereira, PhD, RN, is Full Professor; Rafael Alves Guimarães, PhD, RN, is Adjunct Professor; and Maria Márcia Bachion, PhD, RN, is Full Professor. The authors have disclosed no financial relationships related to this article. Submitted January 5, 2023; accepted in revised form March 14, 2023
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Hidalgo-Tallón FJ, Pinto-Bonilla R, Baeza-Noci J, Menéndez-Cepero S, Cabizosu A. Medical ozone on hamstring injury in a professional athlete assessed by thermography: a clinical case report. BJR Case Rep 2023; 9:20220078. [PMID: 37576006 PMCID: PMC10412915 DOI: 10.1259/bjrcr.20220078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Revised: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
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Injuries associated with the hamstring muscles in the running athlete are increasingly investigated due to the economic and functional consequences associated with them. Although hardly used in the treatment of sports injuries, medical ozone is effective and very well tolerated in the treatment of musculoskeletal pain, it was decided to add a series of medical ozone infiltrations to the treatment. The evolution of the case was recorded by medical thermography, in addition to measuring pain intensity (visual analog scale) and functional capacity (toe touch test). Pain intensity (visual analog scale) decreased from seven at baseline to two at the end of treatment (after two ozone infiltrations, one weekly). Mobility of the damaged area (toe touch test) improved from a distance of 8 cm at baseline to 0 cm at the end of treatment. Regarding medical thermography, after the first and second infiltration of ozone, the temperature rose to a significant increase in perfusion from baseline from 31.2 to 31.8 °C and from 31.2 to 32 °C, respectively. These results suggest the possible interest of medical ozone as an adjuvant treatment for the recovery of sports tendinopathies and encourage us to carry out further studies.
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- Francisco Javier Hidalgo-Tallón
- Chair of Ozone Therapy and Chronic Pain, San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), Institute of Neurosciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- THERMHESC Group, Chair of Ribera Hospital de Molina - San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), Molina de Segura, Spain
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Derwin R, Patton D, Strapp H, Moore Z. Wound pH and temperature as predictors of healing: an observational study. J Wound Care 2023; 32:302-310. [PMID: 37094930 DOI: 10.12968/jowc.2023.32.5.302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to measure wound pH, wound temperature and wound size together to gain further understanding of their impact as predictors of wound healing outcomes. METHOD This study employed a quantitative non-comparative, prospective, descriptive observational design. Participants with both acute and hard-to-heal (chronic) wounds were observed weekly for four weeks. Wound pH was measured using pH indicator strips, wound temperature was measured using an infrared camera and wound size was measured using the ruler method. RESULTS Most of the 97 participants (65%, n=63) were male; participant's ages ranged between 18 and 77 years (mean: 42±17.10. Most of the wounds observed were surgical 60%, (n=58) and 72% (n=70) of the wounds were classified as acute, with 28% (n=27) classified as hard-to-heal wounds. At baseline, there was no significant difference in pH between acute and hard-to-heal wounds; overall the mean pH was 8.34±0.32, mean temperature was 32.86±1.78°C) and mean wound area was 910.50±1132.30mm2. In week 4, mean pH was 7.71±1.11, mean temperature was 31.90±1.76°C and mean wound area was 339.90±511.70mm2. Over the study follow-up period, wound pH ranged from 5-9, from week 1 to week 4, mean pH reduced by 0.63 units from 8.34 to 7.71. Furthermore, there was a mean 3% reduction in wound temperature and a mean 62% reduction in wound size. CONCLUSION The study demonstrated that a reduction in pH and temperature was associated with increased wound healing as evidenced by a corresponding reduction in wound size. Thus, measuring pH and temperature in clinical practice may provide clinically meaningful data pertaining to wound status.
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- Rosemarie Derwin
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin
- Fakeeh College of Health Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Australia
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin
- School of Nursing & Midwifery, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
- School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences Ulster University, Northern Ireland
- Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales
- Department of Nursing, Fakeeh College for Medical Sciences, Jeddah, KSA
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium
- Lida Institute, Shanghai, China
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Kaselimi M, Protopapadakis E, Doulamis A, Doulamis N. A review of non-invasive sensors and artificial intelligence models for diabetic foot monitoring. Front Physiol 2022; 13:924546. [PMID: 36338484 PMCID: PMC9635839 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.924546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/04/2024] Open
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Diabetic foot complications have multiple adverse effects in a person's quality of life. Yet, efficient monitoring schemes can mitigate or postpone any disorders, mainly by early detecting regions of interest. Nowadays, optical sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) tools can contribute efficiently to such monitoring processes. In this work, we provide information on the adopted imaging schemes and related optical sensors on this topic. The analysis considers both the physiology of the patients and the characteristics of the sensors. Currently, there are multiple approaches considering both visible and infrared bands (multiple ranges), most of them coupled with various AI tools. The source of the data (sensor type) can support different monitoring strategies and imposes restrictions on the AI tools that should be used with. This review provides a comprehensive literature review of AI-assisted DFU monitoring methods. The paper presents the outcomes of a large number of recently published scholarly articles. Furthermore, the paper discusses the highlights of these methods and the challenges for transferring these methods into a practical and trustworthy framework for sufficient remote management of the patients.
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- Maria Kaselimi
- National Technical University of Athens, School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, Athens, Greece
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Miskovic V, Malafronte E, Minetti C, Machrafi H, Varon C, Iorio CS. Thermotropic Liquid Crystals for Temperature Mapping. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:806362. [PMID: 35646874 PMCID: PMC9133408 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.806362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Wound management in Space is an important factor to be considered in future Human Space Exploration. It demands the development of reliable wound monitoring systems that will facilitate the assessment and proper care of wounds in isolated environments, such as Space. One possible system could be developed using liquid crystal films, which have been a promising solution for real-time in-situ temperature monitoring in healthcare, but they are not yet implemented in clinical practice. To progress in the latter, the goal of this study is twofold. First, it provides a full characterization of a sensing element composed of thermotropic liquid crystals arrays embedded between two elastomer layers, and second, it discusses how such a system compares against non-local infrared measurements. The sensing element evaluated here has an operating temperature range of 34–38°C, and a quick response time of approximately 0.25 s. The temperature distribution of surfaces obtained using this system was compared to the one obtained using the infrared thermography, a technique commonly used to measure temperature distributions at the wound site. This comparison was done on a mimicked wound, and results indicate that the proposed sensing element can reproduce the temperature distributions, similar to the ones obtained using infrared imaging. Although there is a long way to go before implementing the liquid crystal sensing element into clinical practice, the results of this work demonstrate that such sensors can be suitable for future wound monitoring systems.
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- Vanja Miskovic
- Service Chimie-Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
- *Correspondence: Vanja Miskovic,
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- Service Chimie-Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Service Chimie-Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Service Chimie-Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
- GIGA-In Silico Medicine, Université de Liége, Liège, Belgium
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- Service Chimie-Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Gethin G, Ivory JD, Sezgin D, Muller H, O'Connor G, Vellinga A. What is the "normal" wound bed temperature? A scoping review and new hypothesis. Wound Repair Regen 2021; 29:843-847. [PMID: 33987906 DOI: 10.1111/wrr.12930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2020] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Wound bed temperature measurement holds the potential to be a safe, easy to use, and low-cost tool to aid objective wound bed assessment, clinical decision making and improved patient outcomes. However, there is no consensus on the normal range of wound bed temperature in chronic wounds. We conducted a scoping review including any study type, from 2010 to 2020 in which chronic wound bed temperature was reported. Thirteen studies including 477 patients met our criteria. Venous ulcers (VLU) accounted for 46.5% (n = 222) of wounds; diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) for 25.4% (n = 121) with pressure ulcers (PU), mixed arterial venous ulcers (MAVLU) and unknown aetiology accounting for the remainder. The weighted mean of means for wound bed temperature was 31.7°C (n = 395) for all wound types; 31.7°C for VLU; 31.6°C for DFU; 33.3°C for PU; 30.9°C for MAVLU; and 32.0°C for those with unknown aetiology. Based on our review, we hypothesise that normal wound bed temperature is within a range of 30.2-33.0°C.
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- Georgina Gethin
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland.,Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland.,School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Melborne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland.,Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland.,Irish Research Council (IRC), Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland.,Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland.,School of Physics, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland.,School of Physics, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland.,School of Medicine, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
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Xu Z, Agbigbe O, Nigro N, Yakobi G, Shapiro J, Ginosar Y. Use of high-resolution thermography as a validation measure to confirm epidural anesthesia in mice: a cross-over study. Int J Obstet Anesth 2021; 46:102981. [PMID: 33906822 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijoa.2021.102981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2020] [Revised: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Effective epidural anesthesia is confirmed in humans by sensory assessments but these tests are not feasible in mice. We hypothesized that, in mice, infrared thermography would demonstrate selective segmental warming of lower extremities following epidural anesthesia. METHODS We anesthetized 10 C57BL/6 mice with isoflurane and then inserted a PU-10 epidural catheter under direct surgical microscopy at T11-12. A thermal camera (thermal sensitivity ±0.05°C, pixel resolution 320x240 pixels, and spatial resolution 200 μm) recorded baseline temperature of front and rear paws, tail and ears. Thermography was assessed at baseline and 2, 5, 10, and 15 min after an epidural bolus dose of 50 μL bupivacaine 0.25% or 50 μL saline (control) using a cross-over design with dose order randomized and investigators blinded to study drug. Thermal images were recorded from video and analyzed using FLIR software. Effect over time and maximal effect (Emax) were assessed by repeated measures ANOVA and paired t-tests. Comparisons were between bupivacaine and control, and between lower vs upper extremities. RESULTS Epidural bupivacaine caused progressive warming of lower compared with upper extremities (P <0.001), typically returning to baseline by 15 min after administration. Mean (±SD) Emax was +3.73 (±1.56) °C for lower extremities compared with 0.56 (±0.68) °C (P=0.03) for upper extremities. Following epidural saline, there was no effect over time (Emax for lower extremities -0.88 (±0.28) °C compared with the upper extremities -0.88 (±0.19) °C (P >0.99). CONCLUSIONS Thermography is a useful tool to confirm epidural catheter placement in animals for which subjective, non-noxious, sensory measures are impossible.
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- Z Xu
- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; Wohl Institute of Translational Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Mirghani HO. Screening of Foot Inflammation in Diabetic Patients by Noninvasive Imaging Modalities. DIABETIC FOOT ULCER 2021:77-85. [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-7639-3_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/01/2024]
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Amrani G, Peko L, Hoffer O, Ovadia-Blechman Z, Gefen A. The microclimate under dressings applied to intact weight-bearing skin: Infrared thermography studies. Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 2020; 75:104994. [PMID: 32335474 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2020.104994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2019] [Revised: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 04/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND When a patient is lying in a hospital bed (e.g. supine or prone), bodyweight forces distort soft tissues by compression, tension and shear, and may lead to the onset of pressure ulcers in those who are stationary and insensate, especially at their pelvic region. Altered localized microclimate conditions, particularly elevated skin temperatures leading to perspiration and resulting in skin moisture or wetness, are known to further increase the risk for pressure ulcers, which is already high in immobile patients. METHODS We have used infrared thermography to measure local skin temperatures at the buttocks of supine healthy subjects, to quantitatively determine, for the first time in the literature, how skin microclimate conditions associated with a weight-bearing Fowler's position are affected by application of dressings. Our present methodology has been applied to compare a polymeric membrane dressing versus placebo foam, with a no-dressing case used as reference. FINDINGS One hour of lying in a Fowler's position was already enough to cause considerable heat trapping (~3 °C rise) between the weight-bearing body and the support surface. Analyses of normalized local skin temperatures and entropy of the temperature distributions indicated that the polymeric membrane dressing material allowed better and more homogenous clearance of locally accumulated body-heat with respect to simple foam. INTERPRETATION Infrared thermography is suitable for characterizing skin microclimate conditions under different dressings, and, accordingly, is effective in developing and evaluating pressure ulcer prevention and treatment strategies - both of which require adequate skin microclimate.
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- Golan Amrani
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- School of Medical Engineering, Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
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Marqués-Sánchez P, Liébana-Presa C, Benítez-Andrades JA, Gundín-Gallego R, Álvarez-Barrio L, Rodríguez-Gonzálvez P. Thermal Infrared Imaging to Evaluate Emotional Competences in Nursing Students: A First Approach through a Case Study. SENSORS 2020; 20:s20092502. [PMID: 32354094 PMCID: PMC7248891 DOI: 10.3390/s20092502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2020] [Revised: 04/25/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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During university studies of nursing, it is important to develop emotional skills for their impact on academic performance and the quality of patient care. Thermography is a technology that could be applied during nursing training to evaluate emotional skills. The objective is to evaluate the effect of thermography as the tool for monitoring and improving emotional skills in student nurses through a case study. The student was subjected to different emotions. The stimuli applied were video and music. The process consisted of measuring the facial temperatures during each emotion and stimulus in three phases: acclimatization, stimulus, and response. Thermographic data acquisition was performed with an FLIR E6 camera. The analysis was complemented with the environmental data (temperature and humidity). With the video stimulus, the start and final forehead temperature from testing phases, showed a different behavior between the positive (joy: 34.5 °C-34.5 °C) and negative (anger: 36.1 °C-35.1 °C) emotions during the acclimatization phase, different from the increase experienced in the stimulus (joy: 34.7 °C-35.0 °C and anger: 35.0 °C-35.0 °C) and response phases (joy: 35.0 °C-35.0 °C and anger: 34.8 °C-35.0 °C). With the music stimulus, the emotions showed different patterns in each phase (joy: 34.2 °C-33.9 °C-33.4 °C and anger: 33.8 °C-33.4 °C-33.8 °C). Whenever the subject is exposed to a stimulus, there is a thermal bodily response. All of the facial areas follow a common thermal pattern in response to the stimulus, with the exception of the nose. Thermography is a technique suitable for the stimulation practices in emotional skills, given that it is non-invasive, it is quantifiable, and easy to access.
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- Pilar Marqués-Sánchez
- SALBIS Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Campus of Ponferrada, University of León, 24401 Ponferrada, Spain;
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- SALBIS Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Campus of Ponferrada, University of León, 24401 Ponferrada, Spain;
- Correspondence:
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- SALBIS Research Group, Department of Electric, Systems and Automatics Engineering, University of León, 24071 León, Spain;
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- Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Campus of Ponferrada, University of León, 24401 Ponferrada, Spain;
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- Department of Mining, Surveying and Structure, Campus of Ponferrada, University of León, 24401 Ponferrada, Spain;
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Gethin G, O'Connor GM, Abedin J, Newell J, Flynn L, Watterson D, O'Loughlin A. Monitoring of pH and temperature of neuropathic diabetic and nondiabetic foot ulcers for 12 weeks: An observational study. Wound Repair Regen 2018; 26:251-256. [DOI: 10.1111/wrr.12628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2017] [Accepted: 03/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Georgina Gethin
- Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds, NUI Galway; Galway Ireland
- School of Nursing and Midwifery; NUI Galway; Galway Ireland
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- Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds, NUI Galway; Galway Ireland
- School of Physics; NUI Galway; Galway Ireland
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- College of Engineering and Infomatics; NUI Galway; Galway Ireland
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- School of Mathematics; Statistics, and Applied Mathematics, NUI Galway; Galway Ireland
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- Merlin Park Hospital; Podiatry Unit; Galway Ireland
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- Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds, NUI Galway; Galway Ireland
- Bons Secours Hospital; Galway Ireland
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