Publications by authors named "A J Loeve"
Forensic reconstruction and scenario evaluation are crucial in investigations of suspicious deaths related to falls from a height. In such cases, distinguishing between accidental falls, being pushed or jumping is an important but difficult task, since objective methods to do so are currently lacking. This paper explores the possibility of repurposing a passive rigid body model of a human from commercially available crash simulation software for forensic reconstruction and scenario evaluation of humans dropping from heights.
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- Duodenoscopes, which are tools used in certain medical procedures, can spread dangerous germs that are hard to treat.
- An investigation into patients who got sick after using the same duodenoscope found that some of them had infections caused by harmful bacteria.
- Even though regular testing of the duodenoscope didn’t find any germs, a deeper investigation revealed that a specific part of the tool was contaminated.
Inflicted shaking trauma can cause injury in infants, but exact injury mechanisms remain unclear. Controversy exists, particularly in courts, whether additional causes such as impact are required to produce injuries found in cases of (suspected) shaking. Publication rates of studies on animal and biomechanical models of inflicted head injury by shaking trauma (IHI-ST) in infants continue rising.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInflicted head injury by shaking trauma (IHI-ST) in infants is a type of abusive head trauma often simulated computationally to investigate causalities between violent shaking and injury. This is commonly done with the head's rotation center kept fixed over time. However, due to the flexibility of the infant's neck and the external shaking motion imposed by the perpetrator it is unlikely that the rotation center is static.
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- Surgical process model (SPM) analysis helps predict surgical steps and assess the impact of new technologies in complex procedures like parenchyma sparing laparoscopic liver resection (LLR), aiming to enhance surgical quality and efficiency.
- A study analyzed videos of 13 LLR surgeries to extract and categorize the duration and sequence of surgical steps, and developed a discrete events simulation model (DESM) to evaluate the effects of using a navigation platform on surgery duration in various scenarios.
- Results indicated significant variations in surgical sequences based on tumor location, identified treatment phases as bottlenecks, and suggested that navigation platforms could potentially reduce surgery time by up to 30%, offering valuable insights for surgical training and performance analysis.