Depth cameras can provide an effective, noncontact, and privacy-preserving means to monitor patients in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Clinical interventions and routine care events can disrupt video-based patient monitoring. Automatically detecting these periods can decrease the time required for hand-annotating recordings, which is needed for system development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnnu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
November 2021
Newborns admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) require a high level of care due to their precarious condition. Nurses typically monitor their vital signs continuously using wearable sensors such as electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes placed on their chest and a pulse oximeter on a limb. When the patient moves, this can cause motion artifacts on one or more physiologic signals, potentially resulting in a false alarm on the patient monitor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPyrethroid resistance in malaria vectors has spread across sub-Saharan Africa. Alternative tools and molecules are urgently needed for effective vector control. One of the most promising strategies to prevent or delay the development of resistance is to use at least two molecules having unrelated modes of action in combination in the same bed net.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To describe the diagnosis and therapeutic management of bacterial pneumopathies in a neonatology unit located in a tropical area.
Methods: Transverse and prospective survey over an 18-month period. The diagnosis was based on the comparison of anamnestic features with clinical, biological and radiological features.