43 results match your criteria: "Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences.[Affiliation]"
AIP Adv
December 2021
Institute of Flow in Additively Manufactured Porous Media (ISAPS), Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Max-Planck-Str. 39, 74081 Heilbronn, Germany.
Aerosol particles are one of the main routes of transmission of COVID-19. Mobile air purifiers are used to reduce the risk of infection indoors. We focus on an air purifier that generates a defined volumetric air flow through a highly efficient filter material.
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September 2021
Department Medical Information Systems, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany.
Medical routine data has the potential to benefit research. However, transferring this data into a research context is difficult. For this reason Medical Data Integration Centers are being established in German university hospitals to consolidate data from primary information systems in a single location.
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September 2021
GECKO Institute, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Heilbronn, Germany.
Background: Pediatric emergencies involving children are rare events, and the experience of emergency physicians and the results of such emergencies are accordingly poor. Anatomical peculiarities and individual adjustments make treatment during pediatric emergency susceptible to error. Critical mistakes especially occur in the calculation of weight-based drug doses.
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May 2021
GECKO Institute, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
The process of consolidating medical records from multiple institutions into one data set makes privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL) a necessity. Most PPRL approaches, however, are only designed to link records from two institutions, and existing multi-party approaches tend to discard non-matching records, leading to incomplete result sets. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for federated record linkage between multiple parties by a trusted third party using record-level bloom filters to preserve patient data privacy.
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May 2021
Department Medical Information Systems, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany.
Medical routine data promises to add value for research. However, the transfer of this data into a research context is difficult. Therefore, Medical Data Integration Centers are being set up to merge data from primary information systems in a central repository.
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May 2021
GECKO Institute, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Several standards and frameworks have been described in existing literature and technical manuals that contribute to solving the interoperability problem. Their data models usually focus on clinical data and only support healthcare delivery processes. Research processes including cross organizational cohort size estimation, approvals and reviews of research proposals, consent checks, record linkage and pseudonymization need to be supported within the HiGHmed medical informatics consortium.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) as a parameter for patient well-being is becoming increasingly important.[1] Nevertheless, it is mainly used as an endpoint in studies rather than as an indicator for adjustments in therapy. In this paper we will present an approach to gradually integrate quality of life (QoL) as a control element into the care delivery of oncology.
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May 2021
Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, GECKO Institute.
Medical emergencies involving children are rare events. The experience of emergency physicians is therefore low and the results are correspondingly poor. Assistance services to help in emergencies are regularly requested.
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June 2021
Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, L.6.18. Bildungscampus, Max-Planck-Str. 39, 74081 Heilbronn, Germany.
Covid-19 seriously impacts and endangers lives of millions worldwide. To fight the spread of the virus, governments have taken various restricting measures including stay at home orders. Ultimately, the home delivery volume increased significantly, which still bears the risk of human-human infection during the final delivery.
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October 2021
LMU Munich, University Hospital, Institute for Medical Education, Munich, Germany.
The increasingly digitized healthcare system requires new skills from all those involved. In order to impart these competencies, appropriate courses must be developed at educational institutions. In view of the rapid development of new aspects of digitization, this presents a challenge; suitable teaching formats must be developed successively.
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October 2020
Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pulmonology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
Objectives: Fast diagnostic algorithms using high-sensitivity troponin (hsTn) in suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are regarded as beneficial to expedite diagnosis and safe discharge of patients in crowded emergency departments (ED). This study investigates the effects of crowding on process times related to the diagnostic protocol itself or other time delays, and outcomes.
Design: Prospective single-centre observational study.
J Clin Monit Comput
October 2021
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany.
Neurological surgery in the semi-sitting position is linked with a pronounced incidence of venous air embolism (VAE) which can be fatal and therefore requires continuous monitoring. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) provides a high sensitivity for the intraoperative detection of VAE; however, continuous monitoring with TEE requires constant vigilance by the anaesthesiologist, which cannot be ensured during the entire surgical procedure. We implemented a fully automatic VAE detection system for TEE based on a statistical model of the TEE images.
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June 2020
GECKO Institute, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Heilbronn, Germany.
If a pupil falls seriously ill, it is not only a shock for the pupil himself or herself, but also for his or her family and classmates. The project "Virtual Classroom" of the Heilbronn University in cooperation with the foundation "Big Help for Little Heroes" therefore tries to maintain the daily school routine and thus the contact with friends as far as possible with the help of mobile telepresence robots in the classroom from home or from the hospital. Here there are both technical and human factors that contribute to success or failure.
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July 2019
Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, GECKO Institute, Germany.
Emergencies involving children are rare events. Due to the associated lack of routine and special features in pediatric resuscitation, it is prone to errors and the results are unsatisfactory. One way of tackling this problem is to use assistance services.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Res Cardiol
April 2020
Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pulmonology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Background: Patients with unstable angina (UA) are regarded to be at low risk for future coronary events. Guidelines discourage routine coronary angiography and recommend early discharge after individualized risk stratification. The relative value of clinical risk indicators as compared to cardiac troponin (cTn) alone is unsettled in the era of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hsTn) assays.
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February 2020
Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pulmonology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany.
Background: Although the value of fast diagnostic protocols in suspected acute coronary syndrome has been validated, there is insufficient real world evidence including patients with lower pre-test probability, atypical symptoms and confounding comorbidities. The feasibility, efficacy and safety of European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 0/1 and 0/3-hour algorithms using high-sensitivity troponin T were evaluated in a consecutive cohort with suspected acute coronary syndrome.
Methods: During 12 months, 2525 eligible patients were enrolled.
Stud Health Technol Inform
September 2019
GECKO Institute, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Heilbronn, Germany.
In medical education Virtual Patients (VP) are often applied to train students in different scenarios such as recording the patient's medical history or deciding a treatment option. Usually, such interactions are predefined by software logic and databases following strict rules. At this point, Natural Language Processing/Machine Learning (NLP/ML) algorithms could help to increase the overall flexibility, since most of the rules can derive directly from training data.
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September 2019
GECKO Institute, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Heilbronn, Germany.
Children are rarely affected by medical emergencies. The experience of doctors or paramedics with child emergencies is correspondingly poor. The anatomical features and individual calculations make such an emergency much more error-prone than a comparable adult emergency.
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