Vital sign monitoring - from home over antarctica to space

Purpose : The aim of this study is to report a case of intraorbital wooden foreign body with intracranial extension to the frontal lobe and its management. Method : This is a descriptive study: A 53 year-old male referred due to wooden stick stucked in the orbital cavity causing protruding eyeball and vital sign instability. Result : Right eye examination revealed light perception visual acuity, with bad light projection and bad color perception, inwardly folded upper eyelid, proptosis, conjunctival chemosis, corneal erosion and edema, dilated pupil with sluggish pupillary light reflex and limited ocular movement in all direction. Vital sign was unstable with decreasing blood pressure, increasing temperature and heart rate. CT Scan showed complete fracture of the orbital roof due to penetration of the wooden stick, pneumoencephalus, cerebral edema and hematoma. Emergency craniotomy was performed to remove the penetrating wooden stick and bone segment in the frontal lobe and fracture repair. Ophthalmologist pulled the remaining stick, released the superior rectus muscle and repaired the lacerated eyelid. Outcome visual acuity was no light perception with lagophthalmos and limited ocular motility. Patient was admitted to Intensive Care Unit one day post-operatively and treated with systemic and topical antibiotic. Conclusion : Any case presenting with intraorbital foreign body must undergo immediate neuroimaging to exclude any intracranial extension, especially in patients with worsening general condition.

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Wireless Vital Sign Sensor Network Simulations for Mass Casualty Response

10.21236/ada592089 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Adam Renner

Keyword(s):

Sensor Network ◽

Vital Sign ◽

Mass Casualty ◽

Network Simulations

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Effect of a novel vital sign device on maternal mortality and morbidity in low-resource settings: a pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised controlled trial

The Lancet Global Health ◽

10.1016/s2214-109x(18)30526-6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. e347-e356 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Nicola Vousden ◽

Elodie Lawley ◽

Hannah L Nathan ◽

Paul T Seed ◽

Muchabayiwa Francis Gidiri ◽

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Keyword(s):

Randomised Controlled Trial ◽

Maternal Mortality ◽

Vital Sign ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial ◽

Stepped Wedge ◽

Mortality And Morbidity ◽

Cluster Randomised ◽

Maternal Mortality And Morbidity ◽

Randomised Controlled

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184. Early Loss of Complexity Is a New Vital Sign—A Survival Model in 2656 Trauma Patients

Journal of Surgical Research ◽

10.1016/j.jss.2007.12.209 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 144 (2) ◽

pp. 258-259

Author(s):

Steven A. Anderson ◽

Patrick R. Norris ◽

Rafe M. Donahue ◽

Judith M. Jenkins ◽

John A. Morris

Keyword(s):

Vital Sign ◽

Survival Model ◽

Trauma Patients ◽

Early Loss

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Recent Development of Non-Contact Multi-Target Vital Sign Detection and Location Tracking Based on Metamaterial Leaky Wave Antennas

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21113619 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (11) ◽

pp. 3619

Author(s):

Yichao Yuan ◽

Chung-Tse Michael Wu

Keyword(s):

Vital Sign ◽

Complex Structure ◽

Health Condition ◽

Phase Shifters ◽

Location Tracking ◽

Radar Sensor ◽

Leaky Wave ◽

Multiple Targets ◽

Microwave Radar ◽

Sign Detection

Microwave radar sensors have been developed for non-contact monitoring of the health condition and location of targets, which will cause minimal discomfort and eliminate sanitation issues, especially in a pandemic situation. To this end, several radar sensor architectures and algorithms have been proposed to detect multiple targets at different locations. Traditionally, beamforming techniques incorporating phase shifters or mechanical rotors are utilized, which is relatively complex and costly. On the other hand, metamaterial (MTM) leaky wave antennas (LWAs) have a unique property of launching waves of different spectral components in different directions. This feature can be utilized to detect multiple targets at different locations to obtain their healthcare and location information accurately, without complex structure and high cost. To this end, this paper reviews the recent development of MTM LWA-based radar sensor architectures for vital sign detection and location tracking. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of MTM vital sign radar compared with different radar sensor architectures.

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