Reliability of Markerless Motion Capture Systems for Assessing Movement Screenings.

Background: Movement screenings are commonly used to detect unfavorable movement patterns. Markerless motion capture systems have been developed to track 3-dimensional motion.

Purpose: To determine the reliability of movement screenings assessed using a markerless motion capture system when comparing the results of multiple systems and multiple collection periods.

Intensive care unit telemedicine: review and consensus recommendations.

Intensive care unit telemedicine involves nurses and physicians located at a remote command center providing care to patients in multiple, scattered intensive care units via computer and telecommunication technology. The command center is equipped with a workstation that has multiple monitors displaying real-time patient vital signs, a complete electronic medical record, a clinical decision support tool, a high-resolution radiographic image viewer, and teleconferencing for every patient and intensive care unit room. In addition to communication functions, the video system can be used to view parameters on ventilator screens, infusion pumps, and other bedside equipment, as well as to visually assess patient conditions.

Antepartum bleeding of unknown origin in the second half of pregnancy: a review.

Unlabelled: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence, adverse pregnancy complications, and optimal management of pregnancies complicated by bleeding in the second half of pregnancy of an unknown origin (ABUO). A MEDLINE search from 1966 through November 2004 using the search terms "antepartum hemorrhage" or "hemorrhage" or "uterine hemorrhage" and "pregnancy complications" and "cardiovascular complications" and "second trimester pregnancy" or "third trimester pregnancy" was undertaken. The inclusion criteria focused on bleeding not resulting from placenta previa or abruption or to any known cause.

Clinical gene therapy for nonmalignant disease.

Gene therapy is envisioned as a potentially definitive treatment for a variety of diseases that have a genetic etiology. We reviewed trials of clinical gene therapy for nonmalignant, single-gene, and multifactorial disorders and infectious diseases, and found limited evidence suggesting that gene therapy may benefit patients who have severe, combined, immunodeficiency disorder; cystic fibrosis; coronary artery disease or peripheral arterial disease; or hemophilia. Effective gene therapy requires the targeted transfer of exogenous genetic material into human cells and the subsequent regulated expression of the corresponding gene product.

Distributed medical informatics education using internet2.

The curricula of most medical informatics training programs are incomplete. We used Internet2-based videoconferencing to expand the educational opportunities of medical informatics students at Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Pittsburgh. Students and faculty in both programs shared extra-curricular research conferences and journal club meetings.