MHealth devices demonstrate validity and reliability in detecting steps in chronic stroke survivors who rely on assistive devices.

Purpose: To assess the concurrent validity and reliability of five mHealth devices (STEPZ, Health, Pacer, Google Fit, and Fitbit Inc.®) in counting steps among individuals with chronic stroke using assistive devices (AD). Our primary objective was to identify significant variations in step counts between AD users and non-users.

Validity of mHealth devices for counting steps in individuals with Parkinson's disease.

Background: Step quantification is a good way to characterize the mobility and functional status of individuals with some functional disorder. Therefore, a validation study may lead to the feasibility of devices to stimulate an increase in the number of steps and physical activity level of individuals with Parkinson's Disease (PD).

Aim: To investigate the validity of mHealth devices to estimate the number of steps in individuals with PD and compare the estimate with a standard criterion measure.

Stroke Microsurgical Thrombectomy Human Placenta Simulator.

Background: Stroke microsurgical cerebrovascular thrombectomy reports are limited, although this technique could be used in many centers as a primary treatment or a salvage intervention option. It requires great ability, so our aim is to describe and validate a stroke microsurgical thrombectomy ex vivo simulator with operative nuances analysis.

Methods: Human placenta (HP) models simulated middle cerebral artery vessels with intraluminal thrombus to be microsurgically excised.

Development and validation of the Skills Assessment in Microsurgery for Brain Aneurysms (SAMBA) instrument for predicting proficiency in aneurysm surgery.

Objective: Surgical performance evaluation was first described with the OSATS (Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills) and modified for aneurysm microsurgery simulation with the OSAACS (Objective Structured Assessment of Aneurysm Clipping Skills). These methods rely on the subjective opinions of evaluators, however, and there is a lack of objective evaluation for proficiency in the microsurgical treatment of brain aneurysms. The authors present a new instrument, the Skill Assessment in Microsurgery for Brain Aneurysms (SAMBA) scale, which can be used similarly in a simulation model and in the treatment of unruptured middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms to predict surgical performance; the authors also report on its validation.

Quality Assurance During Brain Aneurysm Microsurgery-Operative Error Teaching.

Introduction: Quality assurance (QA) is a way to prevent mistakes in advance. Although it has been previously reported for surgical setup, there is no effective approach for minimizing microsurgical technical errors before an operation is done. Neurosurgery resident operative errors during brain aneurysm surgery could be foreseen by practicing in an ex vivo hybrid simulator with microscopic fluorescein vessel flow image.