Biomed Instrum Technol 2014 Sep-Oct;48(5):327-39
Crit Care Nurs Q 2022 Jul-Sep 01;45(3):218-224
Department of Interventional Cardiology, Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Drs Khalif and Ranganathan) and Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Dr DuMont).
Cardiogenic shock is a state of circulatory collapse due to low cardiac output resulting from heart failure. Heart failure in this setting may be due to left, right, or biventricular dysfunction. Acute myocardial infarctions remain the most common cause of cardiogenic shock, although in contemporary patient populations, the increasing prevalence of end-stage heart failure has resulted in a growing population of heart failure cardiogenic shock presentations. Read More
Adv Sci (Weinh) 2022 May 26:e2201291. Epub 2022 May 26.
State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
The left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is often used in the treatment of heart failure. However, 4% to 9% implanted LVAD will have thrombosis problem in one year, which is fatal to the patient's life. In this work, an interventional sonothrombolysis (IST) method is developed to realize the thrombolysis on LVAD. Read More
Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng 2020 Feb 16;11315. Epub 2020 Mar 16.
Vanderbilt University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Nashville, TN USA.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women, and is the second most deadly. Current guidance approaches for breast cancer surgery provide distance to a seed implanted near the tumor centroid. Large deformations between preoperative imaging and surgical presentation, coupled with the lack of tumor extent information leads to difficulty in ensuring complete tumor resection. Read More
Curr Opin Cardiol 2022 May;37(3):261-271
Heart, Vascular, & Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Purpose Of Review: Despite advances in heart failure (HF) therapies, the associated morbidity, mortality, hospitalization rates, and healthcare expenditures remain high. A significant proportion of patients with HF remain symptomatic despite receiving optimal medical therapy. Consequently, there exists a large unmet clinical need for novel therapies for treating acute and chronic HF. Read More
JMIR Serious Games 2022 May 25;10(2):e34884. Epub 2022 May 25.
Gerontechnology & Rehabilitation Group, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Background: Virtual reality (VR) devices are increasingly being used in medicine and other areas for a broad spectrum of applications. One of the possible applications of VR involves the creation of an environment manipulated in a way that helps patients with disturbances in the spatial allocation of visual attention (so-called hemispatial neglect). One approach to ameliorate neglect is to apply cross-modal cues (ie, cues in sensory modalities other than the visual one, eg, auditory and tactile) to guide visual attention toward the neglected space. Read More