The effective introduction of Lifebox pulse oximetry to Malawi

Scott, David A.; McDougall, Robert J

doi:10.1111/anae.13897

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“…Considering the above, and consistent with past findings from various studies on the importance of monitoring saturation level through the use of an oximeter (Taguchi et al, 1994 ; Solé et al, 2009 ; Scott and McDougall, 2017 ; Elliott and Baird, 2019 ; Takei et al, 2020 ), there is a clear need to monitor individuals who are home under observation for COVID-19 infection to check that the saturation level does not fall below a threshold, especially in the absence of previous respiratory illness. In such situations, by trending saturation data, medical staff will be able to understand whether that patient, asymptomatic, symptomatic or pre-symptomatic and in home isolation, should be admitted or not, thus arriving at an early admission before the clinical picture may worsen.…”

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An intelligent telemonitoring application for coronavirus patients: reCOVeryaID

D'Auria,

Russo,

Fedele

et al. 2023

Front. Big Data

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The COVID-19 emergency underscored the importance of resolving crucial issues of territorial health monitoring, such as overloaded phone lines, doctors exposed to infection, chronically ill patients unable to access hospitals, etc. In fact, it often happened that people would call doctors/hospitals just out of anxiety, not realizing that they were clogging up communications, thus causing problems for those who needed them most; such people, often elderly, have often felt lonely and abandoned by the health care system because of poor telemedicine. In addition, doctors were unable to follow up on the most serious cases or make sure that others did not worsen. Thus, uring the first pandemic wave we had the idea to design a system that could help people alleviate their fears and be constantly monitored by doctors both in hospitals and at home; consequently, we developed reCOVeryaID, a telemonitoring application for coronavirus patients. It is an autonomous application supported by a knowledge base that can react promptly and inform medical doctors if dangerous trends in the patient's short- and long-term vital signs are detected. In this paper, we also validate the knowledge-base rules in real-world settings by testing them on data from real patients infected with COVID-19.

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An intelligent telemonitoring application for coronavirus patients: reCOVeryaID

D'Auria,

Russo,

Fedele

et al. 2023

Front. Big Data

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“…Although safe surgical and anaesthesia care has only recently come into focus at a global level, previous interventions aimed at improving outcomes have focused on making operative procedures safer. 19,23 Almost 60% of the postoperative deaths in our hospital occurred more than 24 hours after surgery. In the African Surgical Outcomes Study, more than 95% of patients who died did so in the postoperative period.…”

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“…Our findings are presented in accordance with the STROBE guidelines for reporting of cohort studies (Figure 1). 19…”

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Surgical outcomes in eastern Uganda: a one-year cohort study

Smith

Bulamba

Olupot

et al. 2018

Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia

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There is urgent need to improve access to safe surgical treatments for patients in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, few data exist to characterise clinical outcomes for this patient population. Methods: Consecutive patients undergoing surgery at a referral hospital in Uganda were prospectively followed between October 2016 and October 2017. The primary outcome was in-hospital, postoperative mortality. Secondary outcomes were in-hospital complications for patients undergoing laparotomy and Caesarean section. Results are presented as n (%) or odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals. Results: A total of 4 773 patients of mean age 28 years were included; 3 754 were female (79.0%) and 4 259 patients (89.4%) were classified as American Society of Anesthesiologists class I or II. Some 3 501 (73.8%) procedures were performed on an emergency basis. The most frequent procedure was Caesarean section (2 634 patients [55.3%]). There were 93 deaths (2.0%), 49 of which occurred after the day of surgery (59.0%). In multivariable analysis, patients undergoing general (abdominal) surgery were at greatest risk of death ). Postoperative complications were recorded for 24/412 (5.8%) patients undergoing Caesarean section and 18/107 (16.8%) patients undergoing emergency laparotomy. Infection was the most frequent complication in these patient groups (33/519 patients [6.4%]). Conclusions: This study confirms the feasibility of longitudinal audit of postoperative outcomes in LMICs. Data collected over a one-year period were highly consistent with the findings of a recent seven-day cohort study conducted across Africa.

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Complex Event Processing in Heterogeneous Domains

Persia,

D’Auria

2023

2023 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)

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The effective introduction of Lifebox pulse oximetry to Malawi

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

An intelligent telemonitoring application for coronavirus patients: reCOVeryaID

An intelligent telemonitoring application for coronavirus patients: reCOVeryaID

Surgical outcomes in eastern Uganda: a one-year cohort study

Complex Event Processing in Heterogeneous Domains

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