Evaluation of a low-cost portable NIRS device for monitoring muscle ischemia.

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the low-cost, open-source HEGduino device as a tissue oximetry monitor to advance the research of somatic NIRS monitoring. Specifically, this study analyzes the use of this portable functional NIRS system for detecting the cessation of blood flow due to vascular occlusion in an upper limb. 19 healthy patients aged between 25 and 50 were recruited and monitored using HEGduino device.

Towards intelligent supervision of operating rooms using stencil-based character recognition.

The development of intelligent operating rooms is an example of a cyber-physical system resulting from the symbiosis of Industry 4.0 and medicine. A problem with this type of systems is that it requires demanding solutions that allow the real time acquisition of heterogeneous data in an efficient way.

Modelling the PSI response in general anesthesia.

In anesthesia automation, one of the main important issues is the availability of a reliable measurement of the depth of consciousness level (hypnosis) of the patient. According to this value, the hypnotic drug dosage can be adequately calculated. One of the most studied hypnosis indexes is the bispectral index (BIS).