Publications by authors named "Ekta Singla"
Article Synopsis
- * The case study discusses a patient with severe ocular burns from molten iron, showing significant complications like epithelial defects and tissue ischemia.
- * Treatment involved amniotic membrane transplantation and corrective lid surgery, which led to successful healing and restoration of normal eyelid function, highlighting the importance of prompt intervention in such injuries.
Architectural design and development of an upper-limb rehabilitation device: a modular synthesis approach.
Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol
January 2024
Purpose: Enormous assistance is required during rehabilitation activities, which might result in a variety of complications if performed manually. To solve this issue, several solutions in the form of assistive devices have been presented recently. Another issue highlighted is the lack of kinematic compatibility in low degrees-of-freedom (dof) systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Deterioration in peripheral contrast sensitivity (CS) can be an indicator to detect progressive deterioration of visual function in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH).
Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in central and peripheral CS and optical coherence tomography (OCT) parameters and in patients with IIH.
Design And Methods: In this pilot observational study, data of 20 eyes of 10 'treatment-naïve' IIH patients were analyzed.
Objectives: To assess the current trend in the surgical management of glaucoma in India.
Methods: An anonymous online survey evaluating the preferred choices in the surgical management of glaucoma was circulated among the members of Glaucoma Society of India (GSI). Survey responses were compared to prior survey among GSI members in 2013 and members of American Glaucoma Society (AGS), 2016.
Purpose: To study the impact of moderate and severe primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) on the quality of life (QoL) due to activity limitation using glaucoma-specific questionnaires.
Methods: This cross-sectional study enrolled 122 participants, 50% (n = 61) being controls and 50% were diagnosed cases of moderate/severe POAG. Three orally administered glaucoma-specific QoL instruments were used: Glaucoma Activity Limitation (GAL-9), Glaucoma Quality of Life (GQL-15), and Viswanathan questionnaires.
Purpose: Most ophthalmic physicians are not formally trained for breaking the news of having sight threatening diseases, requiring lifelong therapy. This study aims to ascertain physician practices and patients' experiences regarding delivery of bad news.
Methods: An online, anonymous questionnaire was sent to 400 ophthalmologists practising glaucoma to gather information as to how they deliver bad news to their patients.
Introduction: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), is known to cause visual dysfunction during its prolonged course of administration. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and field tests are the commonly used screening tests. Not much is known about the role of contrast sensitivity (CS) as method for early detection of HCQ toxicity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOver the last few decades, medical-assisted robots have been considered by many researchers, within the research domain of robotics. In this article, a 5-degrees-of-freedom spatial medical manipulator is analyzed for path planning, based on inverse kinematic solutions. Analytical methods have generally employed for finding the inverse kinematic solutions in earlier studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKinematic modeling of a 7-degree of freedom spatial hybrid manipulator for medical surgery.
Proc Inst Mech Eng H
January 2018
Article Synopsis
- The work focuses on improving the kinematic modeling of spatial hybrid manipulators, particularly addressing limitations of the D-H parameter method in closed-loop and tree-like structures.
- The authors propose a revised approach by incorporating dummy frames, which overcomes the orientational inconsistencies found when using body-attached frames.
- A new kinematic model for a 7-degree of freedom robotic arm is validated with a prototype to assist in surgical tasks, and this model is instrumental in creating the Jacobian matrix, which estimates the manipulator's tip velocity based on joint movements.