Publications by authors named "Jia Hao Lim"
Introduction: The last national emergency department (ED) inventory was performed in 2007, and major changes in population demographics, healthcare needs and infrastructure have since occurred. We sought to obtain an updated inventory of EDs in Singapore to identify and describe changes in their characteristics and capabilities across the years.
Methods: In 2021, the National Emergency Department Inventories (NEDI) instrument was administered to the leadership of Singapore EDs.
Article Synopsis
- - Memristors are promising for efficient multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations in analog in-memory computing (AiMC), but variations can impact accuracy, typically addressed with error-prone on-chip training that can wear out memristors.
- - This study introduces a hardware-software codesign using magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) that allows off-chip calibration, maintaining software accuracy without the drawbacks of on-chip training while demonstrating low variations across mass-produced devices.
- - The proposed off-chip training method adjusts deep neural network parameters for accurate AiMC inference, showing improved performance in MAC operations and achieving results comparable to software baselines, demonstrating MTJs' potential for AI applications.
Study Objective: Sterile gloves are widely used during wound repair procedures in Emergency Departments (ED) worldwide. It is unclear whether sterile gloves protect against postoperative wound infections. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine if sterile gloves offer significant protection against wound infections compared to clean gloves for wound repair in the ED.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmbient Air Quality and Emergency Hospital Admissions in Singapore: A Time-Series Analysis.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
October 2022
Air pollution exposure may increase the demand for emergency healthcare services, particularly in South-East Asia, where the burden of air-pollution-related health impacts is high. This article aims to investigate the association between air quality and emergency hospital admissions in Singapore. Quasi-Poisson regression was applied with a distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM) to assess the short-term associations between air quality variations and all-cause, emergency admissions from a major hospital in Singapore, between 2009 and 2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe use of extracorporeal life support in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) of adult patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by the application of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) during cardiac arrest has been increasing over the past decade. This can be attributed to the encouraging results of extracorporeal CPR (ECPR) in multiple observational studies. To date, only one randomised controlled trial has compared ECPR to conventional advanced life support measures.
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