How early warning with the Oxygen Reserve Index (ORi™) can improve the detection of desaturation during induction of general anesthesia?

The Oxygen Reserve Index (ORi™) is a dimensionless parameter with a value between 0 and 1. It is related to the real-time oxygenation status in the moderate hyperoxic range. The purpose of this study is to investigate the added warning time provided by different ORi alarm triggers and the continuous trends of ORi, SpO, and PaO.

Home-based noninvasive pelvic floor muscle training device to assist women in performing Kegel exercise in the management of stress urinary incontinence.

Background: Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a major health problem affecting approximately 50% of the female population over 45 years of age. We evaluated the therapeutic effects of a home-based non-invasive wireless sensor pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) device with assisted Kegel exercise for SUI.

Methods: We included 60 women 40 to 60 years of age who were diagnosed with urodynamic SUI (mean pad test, 10.

Caregivers' Technology Acceptance of an In-Home Care Management App: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Taiwan faces challenges in providing long-term family care as its population rapidly ages. This study aimed to construct a health application that could effectively meet family caregivers' needs in providing home care. Mixed methods were adopted to explore their acceptance of the application, as well as to gather their suggestions for improving the application.

Establish a Real-time Responsible Home Quarantine and Monitoring Management mHealth Platform.

Due to the global spreading of the COVID-19 virus, countries all over the world are faced with the need to conduct centralized quarantine or home quarantine for "persons who have been in contact with individuals diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus" and "visitors who have travel histories via COVID-19 hot zones". We have presented the community home quarantine service platform design that was utilized in Nanjing, China when the first wave of citizens returns to work after the Chinese New Year holidays on 10th Feb 2020. The main functions of the home quarantine monitoring system include (1) community grid management,(2) GPS positioning application in home isolation movement management,(3) Bluetooth body temperature patch data transmission integration, (4) health assessment scale (physical and mental health state) and (5) multilingual language options.

Avoiding excessive pregnancy weight gain to obtain better pregnancy outcomes in Taiwan.

Pregnancy weight gain may be associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. The article aims to explore the relationship between weight change and pregnancy outcome in the Taiwanese pregnant women.The retrospective cohort study enrolled women with vertex singleton pregnancy at University-associated Hospital between 2011 and 2014.

Using a Mobile Device Application to Support Emergency Clinicians in Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism.

Pulmonary embolism is a difficult disease to diagnose in the emergency department. It may be fatal if the diagnosis is missed. Clinical practice guidelines and textbooks publish pretest diagnostic tools and algorithms that facilitate the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism.

Validated Simulation: The Preliminary Experience of Anesthesiologist Board Examination in Taiwan.

High fidelity simulation-based teaching has played an important role in medical education, especially in anesthesiology and emergency. But there is not any currently validated scoring system or prediction model for high fidelity simulation. We will develop a validated prediction model to enhance the efficiency and validation of clinical training with high fidelity simulation.

Developing Mobile Health Management System for Patients with Musculoskeletal Tumor.

This research provided a postoperative system for osteosarcoma which is seperated into two parts, Bone Patient and Bone Care. We focus on using smartphone features and proper interface design to facilitate self-monitoring, health analysis, and to make appointments. It achieves the effects of shared decision making (SDM).

Evaluate the Usability of the Mobile Instant Messaging Software in the Elderly.

Instant messaging (IM) is one kind of online chat that provides real-time text transmission over the Internet. It becomes one of the popular communication tools. Even it is currnetly an era of smartphones, it still a great challenge to teach and promote the elderly to use smart phone.

The Study of Smartphone Usage Competency Assessment and Training for the Elderly.

This study aimed at developing an assessment of smartphone usage competence and constructing a training program for the elderly. A list of smartphone usage competencies with 34 items was defined through expert survey and panel. Based on the competence and previous literature, a training program and learning aids were designed in this study.

Real-time electrocardiogram transmission from Mount Everest during continued ascent.

The feasibility of a real-time electrocardiogram (ECG) transmission via satellite phone from Mount Everest to determine a climber's suitability for continued ascent was examined. Four Taiwanese climbers were enrolled in the 2009 Mount Everest summit program. Physiological measurements were taken at base camp (5300 m), camp 2 (6400 m), camp 3 (7100 m), and camp 4 (7950 m) 1 hour after arrival and following a 10 minute rest period.

Predicting functional decline of older men living in veteran homes by minimum data set: implications for disability prevention programs in long term care settings.

Objective: To evaluate the risk and protective factors for functional decline of veteran home residents in Taiwan to develop disability prevention programs in long term care settings.

Design: A prospective cohort study.

Setting: Two veteran homes in Taiwan.

[Experiences of a nation-wide integrated program for healthy body weight among students].

Taiwan has good support systems for obesity prevention and management. The percentage of elementary school students with normal body weight, however, has undergone a sustained decrease to 55%. Many factors are associated with this trend, such as lack of physical activity, dissatisfaction with body image, unbalanced dietary pattern, and unsupportive environment.

A web based prototype system for patient use confirming Taiwan electronic medical-record templates.

Taiwanese Department of Health (DOH) proposed the basic format template of electronic medical records (EMR), for the reference of healthcare institutions nationwide. It facilitates the establishment of EMR in healthcare institutions and the foundation of the sharing and exchange center of EMR. We use this basic content format template as the data exchange carrier, and build a EMR prototype system by using web-based XML structured documents, which can thoroughly show the information needed by patients and healthcare institutions, offer web browser inverted exclamation mark|s HTML-style viewing, provide people and institutions with the operation interface for browsing and downloading relevant medical record formats, and realize the dream that people can actually own their EMR.