Personalization of pulse arrival time based blood pressure surrogates through single spot check measurements.

Objective: We investigate the effect of selective single parameter personalization on the performance of multi-parameter models for pulse arrival time (PAT) based blood pressure (BP) surrogates.

Methods: Our data set stems from 15 surgery patients, and we selected from each patient 5 segments of 30 min length each. We evaluate the root mean squared BP tracking error of the two models with and without single parameter personalization.

Estimation of respiratory rate and effort from a chest-worn accelerometer using constrained and recursive principal component analysis.

. Measurement of respiratory rate and effort is useful in various applications, such as the diagnosis of sleep apnea and early detection of patient deterioration in medical conditions, such as infections. A chest-worn accelerometer may be an easy and non-intrusive method, provided it is accurate and robust.

The aflatoxin situation in Africa: Systematic literature review.

Contamination of African staple foods is a major issue for human and animal health, nutrition, and trade. This review aimed to collect and synthesize the available evidence on geographical spread, scale of contamination, disease burden, economic impact, and mitigation measures for aflatoxins in Africa by way of a systematic literature review. This knowledge can enhance management strategies for the major challenges to combat aflatoxins.

Optimized non-uniform sampling of blood pressure time series from the operating room.

Objective: We investigate an optimized non-uniform sampling strategy for blood pressure time series from the operating room (OR). Our aim is to obtain an approximate bound on the achievable reconstruction fidelity given an average sampling rate constraint.

Methods: Our data set consists of 117 hours of recordings of continuous invasive blood pressure from 28 surgery patients.

Towards an algorithm for automatic accelerometer-based pulse presence detection during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Manual palpation is still the gold standard for assessment of pulse presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for professional rescuers. However, this method is unreliable, time-consuming and subjective. Therefore, reliable, quick and objectified assessment of pulse presence in cardiac arrest situations to assist professional rescuers is still an unmet need.