Publications related to Emergency department

Determination of server location in emergency care systems: an index proposal using data envelopment analysis and the hypercube queuing model

The objective of this article is to propose a new composite index (CI) that helps to determine the most effective location of servers in an Emergency Care System (ECS), using Benefit of the Doubt (BoD)/Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the Hypercube queu ...

Peerj Inc2023

Lung Ultrasonography for Risk Stratification in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Prospective Observational Cohort Study

Mary-Anne Hartley, Jean-Yves Meuwly

Background. Lung ultrasonography (LUS) is a promising pragmatic risk-stratification tool in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study describes and compares LUS characteristics between patients with different clinical outcomes. ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2021

Relative Effects of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program on Hospitals That Serve Poorer Patients

Yun Wang, Christine Choirat

Importance: Hospitals that serve poorer populations have higher readmission rates. It is unknown whether these hospitals effectively lowered readmission rates in response to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). Objective: To compare pre-post ...

2019

A smartphone application to determine body length for body weight estimation in children: a prospective clinical trial

Davide Scaramuzza

The aim of this study was to test the feasibility and accuracy of a smartphone application to measure the body length of children using the integrated camera and to evaluate the subsequent weight estimates. A prospective clinical trial of children aged 0–< ...

Springer Verlag2018

Supernumerary Robotic Arm for Three-Handed Surgical Application: Behavioral Study and Design of Human-Machine Interface

Elahe Abdi

In surgical to industrial manipulation, the operator needs assistance for tasks requiring more than two hands. Teamwork may be the source of errors and inefficiency, especially if the assistant is a novice or unfamiliar with the main operator. The need for ...

EPFL2017

Diagnostic approaches to predict persistent post-traumatic symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury - a literature review

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is one of the most frequently diagnosed neurological disorders in emergency departments. Although there are established recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment in the acute stage, there is an on-going debate in wh ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

Assessing the Impact of Stochasticity for Operating Theater Sizing

Jean-Sébastien Tancrez

Over the last few decades, rational health care management and, in particular, operating theater planning, has attracted increased attention from practitioners and from the scientific community. However, although the operating theater environment is clearl ...

Elsevier2013

Preventive reactive power management for improving voltage stability margin

Mokhtar Bozorg, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Omid Alizadeh Mousavi

Voltage stability imposes important limitations on the power systems operation. Adequate voltage stability margin needs to be obtained through the appropriate scheduling of the reactive power resources. The main countermeasures against voltage instability ...

Elsevier2013

About the performance of multi-dimensional radial self-navigation incorporating compressed sensing for free-breathing coronary MRI

Yves Wiaux, Gilles Puy, Ruud van Heeswijk, Gabriele Vincenzo Bonanno

Respiratory motion is a major challenge in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and contemporary state-of-the-art motion compensation strategies like diaphragmatic navigators still suffer from sub-optimal time efficiency. In response, k-space- based on ...

2012

Multi-dimensional radial self-navigation with non-linear reconstruction for free-breathing coronary MRI

Yves Wiaux, Gilles Puy, Ruud van Heeswijk, Gabriele Vincenzo Bonanno

The main challenge for cardiac MRI is motion. To account for respiratory motion, k-space-based self- navigation approaches have recently been introduced [1]. We took self-navigation to the next level by exploiting an image-based beat-to-beat respiratory mo ...

2011

Getting the Opportunity to Fly on your own

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg

The author describes the beginning of her independent scientific career in the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Geneva, at a time when Assistant Professor positions did not exist there and female group leaders in the Section of Chemistry wer ...

2009