IEEE PulsePub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66833
S. Sultana, M. Hanif, S. A. Luna
{"title":"Is Helminthiasis a Precipitating Factor for Frequently Relapsing Nephrotic Syndrome?","authors":"S. Sultana, M. Hanif, S. A. Luna","doi":"10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66833","url":null,"abstract":"Nephrotic Syndrome (NS) is a common childhood illness. It is a disease of relapse and remission with major concern to manage the cases with relapse. Helminthiasis also a common problem in our subcontinent. So, it is very important to find out any relation with helminthiasis and relapse in children. In our study, 88 patients, clinically diagnosed as minimal change nephrotic syndrome, were studied to find out any relationship with helminthiasis and frequent relapse. 36 patients (40.9%) had no helminthic infection, 34 patients (38.6%) had helminthiasis and 18 patients (20.5%) had atopic disorders. 62 patients were successfully followed up for 6 months. Relapses occurred 47.8% (11/23) patients in non-helminthiasis group. 88.5% (23/26) in helminthiasis group and 84.6% (11/13) in atopic group, patients who completed follow up. Thirteen percent (3) patients in non-helminthiasis group, 50% (13) in helminthiasis group and 38.5% (5) in atopic group were found to be frequent relapser. The differences were statistically significant. \u0000Pulse Volume 12-14 2020-2022 p.10-12 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":49065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Pulse","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88805619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE PulsePub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66894
T. Nazrin, M. Hassan
{"title":"Infective Endocarditis Associated with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C): Two Case Studies","authors":"T. Nazrin, M. Hassan","doi":"10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66894","url":null,"abstract":"Infective endocarditis (IE) is the infection of endocardial surface of the heart. IE is the rare disease with significant complications which require early diagnosis and proper treatment for reducing morbidity and mortality.IE with vegetation on pulmonary valve, leaflets are uncommon. However, we have diagnosed one case with infective endocarditis associated with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) which is related with COVID-19. MIS-C is commonly associated with coronary artery aneurysm (CAA), myocarditis and heart failure. Our patient had IE and was subsequently affected with MIS-C due to COVID. The child had vegetation on pulmonary valve with flail pulmonary valve-leaflet with grade II pulmonary regurgitation and MIS-C related CAA. The second child was previously diagnosed as infective endocarditis and was treated in other hospital for intravenous antibiotic for four weeks. However, in our hospital he was diagnosed clinically, by laboratory investigations and by echocardiography as MIS-C with large vegetation, which was surgically removed, and biopsy revealed mycobacterium tuberculosis as causative organism. \u0000Pulse Volume 12-14 2020-2022 p.26-31","PeriodicalId":49065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Pulse","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85681223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE PulsePub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66902
Tahmina Rahman, Rezina Ahmed, A. Mahmud
{"title":"Patient safety culture plays an essential role to ensure safe patient care and quality in healthcare services","authors":"Tahmina Rahman, Rezina Ahmed, A. Mahmud","doi":"10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66902","url":null,"abstract":"Patient Safety is a global health priority. Every year, millions of patients suffer or die because of unsafe and poor- health care service. There are several factors which compromise patient safety and cause potential harm in health care settings. In developed countries, it is estimated that one in every 10 patients is harmed while receiving care in hospital. In developing countries, there is inadequate information on adverse event due to poor quality of health care service. Despite recent developments in Bangladesh, there is still great concern about the quality of care in healthcare sector. Evercare Hospital Dhaka is one of the leading private health care organizations in the country and committed towards patient safety from the very beginning. The purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of patient safety culture at healthcare service and how it is nurtured at Evercare hospital Dhaka by following the joint commission international standards. \u0000Pulse Volume 12-14 2020-2022 p.53-61","PeriodicalId":49065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Pulse","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83443390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE PulsePub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66830
Borhan Uddin Ahmed
{"title":"Antimicrobial Resistance and the next Pandemic","authors":"Borhan Uddin Ahmed","doi":"10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3329/pulse.v14i1-3.66830","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract not available \u0000Pulse Volume 12-14 2020-2022 p.3","PeriodicalId":49065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Pulse","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83808906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE PulsePub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1109/MPULS.2023.3294108
Muhammad Hamid Zaman
{"title":"Designing Devices for Vulnerable Populations: What Needs to Change?","authors":"Muhammad Hamid Zaman","doi":"10.1109/MPULS.2023.3294108","DOIUrl":"10.1109/MPULS.2023.3294108","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The health and well-being of refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and stateless communities are often at risk due to political, logistical, and security challenges associated with providing adequate and timely medical aid to the deserving groups [1]. These challenges are further exacerbated by the absence of context-appropriate technologies that can aid in diagnosis, management, and treatment of life-threatening illnesses. The health challenges faced by forcibly displaced communities are a product of unique factors ranging from conflict to climate change and are further complicated by the living conditions and the surrounding environment [2]. In these situations, there is a need for technologies that are safe, effective, reliable, unbiased, and appropriate for the cultural and economic context.</p>","PeriodicalId":49065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Pulse","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41217504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE PulsePub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1109/mpuls.2023.3294104
N. Tun, Bryan Aleman, Sayda Huacre
{"title":"From Mentorship to Success: A Tapestry of Experiences in the IEEE EMBS Student Mentoring Program","authors":"N. Tun, Bryan Aleman, Sayda Huacre","doi":"10.1109/mpuls.2023.3294104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mpuls.2023.3294104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Pulse","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43508858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE PulsePub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1109/mpuls.2023.3294103
Yasemin M. Akay, Ting Y. Chen
{"title":"Digital Health Enabled Health Care Innovations","authors":"Yasemin M. Akay, Ting Y. Chen","doi":"10.1109/mpuls.2023.3294103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mpuls.2023.3294103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Pulse","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44066541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE PulsePub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1109/MPULS.2023.3294087
Leslie Mertz
{"title":"Smart Contact Lenses Keep an Eye on Health.","authors":"Leslie Mertz","doi":"10.1109/MPULS.2023.3294087","DOIUrl":"10.1109/MPULS.2023.3294087","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contact lenses are ideal conduits for continuous health monitoring. They have a long safety record, and they sit on the eye, where they have access to a range of biological signals. Making the transition from vision correction to biological monitoring, however, requires advances in technological development so the lenses not only detect and report signals accurately, but retain the high level of comfort that users have come to expect.</p>","PeriodicalId":49065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Pulse","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10407250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}