Pressure measurement of air cushions for patients

Tanimoto, Yasuhiro; Takechi, Hideo; Nagahata, Hidekazu; Yamamoto, Hideki

doi:10.1109/imtc.1999.777054

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“…The results of this study have shown the usefulness of visual pressure maps, especially with wheelchair users. Accordingly, [25] have applied pressure measurements and mapping on patients with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI) for the purpose of reducing pain originating from pressure sores developed due to inappropriate wheelchair cushions and unsuitable posture, a study that has also shown very positive results. Similarly, [3] examined the use of pressure measurements also related to wheelchair cushioning, with again very promising results for the use of pressure mapping on the elderly population, regarding reducing pain coming from pressure ulcers.…”

Section: A Pressure Mapping Techniquementioning

confidence: 99%

Notice of Retraction: Pressure Mapping as a Complement in 3D Pain Drawings in the Back-Pain Assessment Process: A Proposed Method

Spyridonis

Ghinea

2010

2010 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering

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Over the years, an increasing number of the adult population suffers from some form of back pain during their lifetime, something that consecutively has a very important impact on a country's health, as well as economic systems. Traditional methods of diagnosing and treating such problems normally involve the collection and visualization of such medical information on a paper and a 2D representation of the human body, which have usually limited abilities in accurately recording and representing pain, making them in that way difficult and time consuming for both patients and doctors to use. In addition, the aforementioned methods are commonly considered to be subjective in nature, something that reduces their ability to be constituted as sufficient in determining whether someone suffers from pain or not. As a result, although in a previous work of ours [5] we have provided a solution to the visualization of pain issues, in this work we propose a prototype solution that attempts to address the aforementioned limitation of pain subjectivity by making use of the upcoming technique of pressure mapping.

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Section: A Pressure Mapping Techniquementioning

confidence: 99%

Notice of Retraction: Pressure Mapping as a Complement in 3D Pain Drawings in the Back-Pain Assessment Process: A Proposed Method

Spyridonis

Ghinea

2010

2010 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering

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“…Although various studies have been conducted in the literature [4,26,29] that also exploited pressure mapping in the mobility impaired population, their main trend was to reduce any pain originating from pressure sores by suggesting either more appropriate wheelchair cushions, or more suitable postures with respect to the results produced. In contrast, the innovation in our work lies in the fact that, as compared with the aforementioned studies, the intended purpose is to identify such pain in order to prevent its consequences, rather than reducing it as a result of them.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The results of the study reported in [26] have shown the usefulness of visual pressure maps, especially with wheelchair users. Accordingly, [29] used pressure measurements and mapping on patients with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI), with a view to reducing pain originating from pressure sores developed due to inappropriate wheelchair cushions and unsuitable posture. Similarly, [4] examined the use of pressure measurements also related to wheelchair cushioning, with again very promising results for the use of pressure mapping on the elderly population regarding reducing pain coming from pressure ulcers.…”

Section: Objective Pain Measurementsmentioning

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3-D Pain Drawings and Seating Pressure Maps: Relationships and Challenges

Spyridonis

Ghinea

2011

IEEE Trans. Inform. Technol. Biomed.

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Abstract-Mobility impaired people constitute a significant portion of the adult population, which often experience back pain at some point during their lifetime. Such pain is usually characterized by severe implications reflected on both their personal lives, as well as on a country's health and economic systems. The traditional 2-dimensional (2D) representations of the human body often used can be limited in their ability to efficiently visualize such pain for diagnosis purposes. Yet, patients have been shown to prefer such drawings. However, considering that pain is a feeling or emotion that is subjective in nature, the pain drawings could be consequently regarded as a subjective means of communicating such pain. As a result, the work described in this paper proposes an alternative, which encompasses a 3-dimensional (3D) pain visualization solution, developed in a previous work of ours. This alternative is complemented with the upcoming technique of pressure mapping for more objectivity in the pain data collection. The results of this study have shown that the proposed approach is a promising solution for the purpose intended, and it could generally prove to be a significant complementary method in the area of medical practice for the mobility impaired community.

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“…The authors of [4], for example, evaluated the impact of blended learning on a collegiate course with radar charts, whereas in [5] the radar chart fused plural parameters to give a verbal description of environmental comfort level. Buttock pressure distribution of patients of spinal cord injury was analyzed in [6] with a hexagonal variant to find the most comfortable wheelchair cushion and patient posture. Radar charts in [7] summarized relative concentrations of up to fourteen chemical elements in order to perform the multielement correlation analyses for medical diagnosis.…”

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Radar chart: Scanning for high QoE in QoS dimensions

Chang

Chen

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2010 IEEE International Workshop Technical Committee on Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR 2010)

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Abstract-The ongoing convergence of QoE (Quality of Experience) and QoS (Quality of Service) studies to give a thorough understanding of the end-user has posed numerous exciting possibilities for network and multimedia researchers. However, there is not yet a proper visualization tool that is able to map the many-to-one relationship between QoS metrics and QoE, leaving researchers speechless in the cacophony of traditional two-dimensional diagrams. Though mostly employed in qualitative analysis, we found that the radar chart, with a few tweaks, surprisingly suitable for the purpose. In this article, we present our adaptation of the radar chart, and demonstrate in a Voice-over-IP context its use in single-and cross-application performance analysis, application recommendation, and network diagnosis.

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Pressure measurement of air cushions for patients

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Notice of Retraction: Pressure Mapping as a Complement in 3D Pain Drawings in the Back-Pain Assessment Process: A Proposed Method

Notice of Retraction: Pressure Mapping as a Complement in 3D Pain Drawings in the Back-Pain Assessment Process: A Proposed Method

3-D Pain Drawings and Seating Pressure Maps: Relationships and Challenges

Radar chart: Scanning for high QoE in QoS dimensions

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