Device-based teaching

AIM: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of ECMO care board games facilitated teaching approach (ECMO care board games) in enhancing ECMO care knowledge, clinical reasoning and learning engagement among intensive care unit (ICU) nurses. BACKGROUND: ECMO is a highly complex, relatively low-incidence, high-risk clinical life support device system used in the intensive care unit (ICU). Its usage has increased nearly tenfold over the past 30 years...

INTRODUCTION: The therapeutic approach to the most common respiratory diseases, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), involves the use of inhalation devices. Its use is essential, but incorrect use is frequent, and learning and reviewing the technique is necessary for the adequate management of these diseases. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to increase the knowledge of health professionals from pharmacies in the municipality of Matosinhos, Portugal, about the correct inhalation technique...

AIM: To gather available scientific evidence on technologies used to teach hand hygiene to professional populations and lays involved in health care in the hospital setting. This systematic review was designed as proposed by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis, included studies reporting primary, original, quantitative research findings with no date limit and written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. The search was performed in the following electronic databases: Cochrane Library, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Excerpta Medica dataBASE, Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde, US National Library of Medicine, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar and ProQuest...

PURPOSE: The Wheelchair Skills Training Program (WSTP) is underutilized in pediatrics for training manual wheelchair skills because the voluminous manual lacks pediatric specificity and no materials adapted for pediatric manual wheelchair users (PMWUs) are available. A set of resources (storybook, posters, training workbook) based on the WSTP has previously been developed for training basic indoor wheelchair skills with five to 15-year-old PMWUs. Occupational therapists (OTs) and PMWUs expressed a need for additional resources addressing higher-level skills...

OBJECTIVE: Patients with asthma find it difficult to use their pressurized metered dose inhalers (pMDI) correctly. Several counseling methods are available to teach the patients how to use their inhaler devices. We aimed to compare the effectiveness of three distinct counseling methods to determine the most effective approach. METHODOLOGY: In this prospective cohort study with a two-month follow-up, A group of non-smoking adults, aged 19-60 years, were randomly collected at outpatients clinic with prior asthma diagnosis, based on the forced expiratory volume in one seconds to forced vital capacity ratio (FEV1/FVC) and the guidelines outlined by the Global Initiative for Asthma GINA), At the baseline assessment, all patients, underwent FEV1/FVC measurements, asthma symptom evaluations using Asthma Control Test (ACT), Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ), and GINA symptoms control assessment questionnaire, and assessment of (pMDI) usage...

OBJECTIVE: The growing availability of devices for mobile learning has created new opportunities for teaching. With the development of smartphone apps based on audience response systems, there is a possibility to quickly assess student knowledge. The education of health professionals, including medical students, is an essential strategy for tuberculosis control. In the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, audience response systems are very useful as online assessment tools...

PURPOSE: Little is known about how children learn to control eye-gaze technology, and clinicians lack information to guide decision-making. This paper examines whether typically developing 2-3 year olds can infer for themselves the causal mechanisms by which eye-gaze technology is controlled, whether a teaching intervention based on causal language improves performance and how their performance compares to the same task accessed via a touchscreen. Methods and materials: Typically developing children's (n = 9, Mean Age 28...

INTRODUCTION: Because the risk of health-care associated infections (HAIs) is high in intensive care units, and HAIs are one of the causes of morbidity and mortality and affects the overall quality of health care, the continuous monitoring of HAIs in intensive care patients is essential. AIM AND OBJECTIVES: This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out over a period of five years in a tertiary-care teaching hospital. The aim of the study was to investigate the main and specific types of health-care associated Infections and determine the microbiological profile and antimicrobial susceptibility rates of isolates in patients with HAI...

Clinical touch is the cornerstone of the doctor-patient relationship and can impact patient experience and outcomes. In the current era, driven by an ever-increasing infusion of point of care technologies, physical exam skills have become undervalued. Moreover, touch and hands-on skills have been difficult to teach due to inaccurate assessments and difficulty with learning transfer through observation. In this article, the authors argue that haptics, the science of touch, provides a unique opportunity to explore new pathways to facilitate touch training...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Surgical trainees need a lot of training and practice before being able to operate independently. The current approach of surgical education mainly involves didactic teaching and psychomotor training through physical models or real tissue. Due to the unavailability of physical resources and lack of objective ways of evaluation, there is a demand for developing alternative training methods for surgeons. In this paper, we present an application that provides additional training opportunities to surgical trainees in the field of facial reconstructive surgeries...

We propose the Uniform Selection and Representation Matching framework, an image classification framework that leverages co-teaching, contrastive learning, representation matching, and uniform selection to perform accurate wound stage classification with limited and noisy-labeled data. Given that descriptors of wound stages are under-specified, making accurate recognition difficult, images that generate low classification confidence are identified using an entropy-based selection process. Pseudo-labels are assigned to the low-confidence images through the representation matching process, where images are embedded into latent space and labels are assigned through majority voting...

The growing importance of data analytics in biomedicine is increasingly becoming recognized in biomedical engineering curricula through the introduction of machine learning classes that generally run in parallel to, but separately from, more traditional engineering courses, such as signal and systems analysis. We propose a new approach that systematically integrates signal processing and systems analysis with key techniques in machine learning. In the proposed course, the student obtains hands-on experience in applying algorithms that can be applied to practical problems of physiological signal conditioning, analysis and interpretation...

Manual therapy training requires close proximity between the clinical teacher and students, which limits the training of people in remote and rural regions. Video-based online training can provide visual but not tactile information, which is also essential for manual therapies. This project describes the development and testing of an inexpensive sensor glove developed using commercially available sensors, suitable for monitoring the shape and force applied by the hand of a person delivering a spinal manipulation...

With the increased use of online English courses, the quality of the course directly determines its efficacy. Recently, various industries have continuously employed Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which has considerable scene adaptability. To better supervise the specific content of English courses, we discuss how to apply multi-source mobile Internet of Things information technology to the practical evaluation system of English courses to boost the performance of English learning evaluation. Therefore, by analyzing the problems of existing English course evaluation and the characteristics of multi-source mobile Internet of Things information technology, this article designs an English course practical evaluation system based on multi-source data collection, processing, and analysis...

BACKGROUND: Regulation (EU) 2017/746 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDR) imposes several conditions on pathology departments that develop and use in-house in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IH-IVDs). However, not all of these conditions need to be implemented immediately after the IVDR entered into force on 26 May 2022. Based on an amending regulation of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, the requirements for IH-IVDs will be phased in. Conformity with the essential safety and performance requirements of annex I must be ensured from May 2022...

BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal pain conditions (MSP) affect not only professional nurses but nursing students too. Long standing pain conditions affecting young individuals in their productive years can impact their work efficiency and can have economic impacts. Effective interventions to decrease the effect of MSP conditions are essential for a healthy professional nursing force which form the backbone of the healthcare system. PURPOSE: We conducted this study with an aim to estimate the prevalence and patterns of MSP conditions in undergraduate nursing students...

This study introduces ETLBOCBL-CNN, an automated approach for optimizing convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures to address classification tasks of varying complexities. ETLBOCBL-CNN employs an effective encoding scheme to optimize network and learning hyperparameters, enabling the discovery of innovative CNN structures. To enhance the search process, it incorporates a competency-based learning concept inspired by mixed-ability classrooms during the teacher phase. This categorizes learners into competency-based groups, guiding each learner's search process by utilizing the knowledge of the predominant peers, the teacher solution, and the population mean...

BACKGROUND: Telemedicine is becoming an integral part of healthcare. Training medical students in telemedicine is encouraged by many medical organizations. However, in the United Arab Emirates in particular, most medical schools have not incorporated it into their curriculum. Therefore, this study aims to assess medical students' perceptions and interest in telemedicine teaching at the University of Sharjah, UAE. METHODS: A questionnaire-based survey was built based on the current literature and was distributed to all medical students at the University of Sharjah between February and March 2023...

INTRODUCTION: In the last decade, the use of bedside ultrasound examination has become one of the defining elements of emergency and intensive-anesthesia care. Among the everyday applications, lung ultrasound examination, which received a huge boost in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, stands out in a profession-specific manner. The first step of the most frequently used protocols is the immediate diagnosis of life-threatening conditions (e.g., pneumothorax) so that appropriate intervention can take place as soon as possible...

BACKGROUND: As countries strive to achieve sustainable development goal 3.2, high-quality medical education is crucial for high-quality neonatal care. Women are encouraged to deliver in health units attended by a skilled team. Traditionally, the team is doctors and nurses, but they are members of a large group of interdependent experts from other disciplines. Each discipline trains separately, yet the goal of good neonatal care is common to all. The use of interprofessional education breaks down these professional silos improving collaborative practice and promoting excellent clinical care...