The impact of routines on emotional and behavioural difficulties in children and on parental anxiety during COVID-19.

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic and related public health measures, including lockdowns and school closures, have impacted on mental health of children.

Aims And Hypothesis: We hypothesised that there would be an association between maintaining a routine during lockdown and both lower emotional and behavioural difficulties in children and lower parental anxiety. Routine was taken as keeping to the same basic activities such as mealtimes and bedtimes.

Touch localization after nerve repair in the hand: insights from a new measurement tool.

Errors of touch localization after hand nerve injuries are common, and their measurement is important for evaluating functional recovery. Available empirical accounts have significant methodological limitations, however, and a quantitatively rigorous and detailed description of touch localization in nerve injury is lacking. Here, we develop a new method of measuring touch localization and evaluate its value for use in nerve injury.

Reducing the carbon footprint in carpal tunnel surgery inside the operating room with a lean and green model: a comparative study.

The primary aim of our study was to assess the environmental impact of moving from a standard to a lean and green model for a carpal tunnel decompression. We objectively measured the clinical waste generated, the number of single use items and the number of sterile instruments required for a standard procedure, and then moved to smaller instrument trays, smaller drapes and fewer disposables. These two models were compared for waste generation, financial costs and carbon footprint.

Analysis and validation of a 3D finite element model for human forearm fracture.

Most researchers have performed finite element (FE) analysis of the human forearm fracture by exploring the strength and load transmission of the bones. However, few studies concentrated a complete simulation of the whole forearm complex including ligaments. This paper aims to investigate the load transmission through the bones, contact stress at the joints and strain in the ligaments by using an elaborate FE model, further validating the fracture condition for human forearm.