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Assessment of the Implementation of the International Health Regulations during...
Queiroz, Guilherme; Maia, Joana; Gomes, Filipa; Chen-Xu, José; China, Joana; Carmezim Pereira, Sofia; Pita Ferreira, Patrícia; Ramalho, JoséIntroduction: The International Health Regulations (IHR) were developed to prepare countries to deal with public health emergencies. The spread of SARS-CoV-2 underlined the need for international coordination, although few attempts were made to evaluate the integrated implementation of the IHR’s core capacities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether IHR shortcomings ...
Usability of a telehealth solution based on TV interaction for the elderly: the...
Pires, Gabriel; Lopes, Ana; Correia, Pedro; Almeida, Luis; Oliveira, Luís; Panda, Renato; Jorge, Dario; Mendes, Diogo; Dias, Pedro; Gomes, NelsonRemote monitoring of biometric data in the elderly population is an important asset for improving the quality of life and level of independence of elderly people living alone. However, the design and implementation of health technological solutions often disregard the elderly physiological and psychological abilities, leading to low adoption of these technologies. We evaluate the usability of a remote patient m...
Smart Monitoring of Constructed Wetlands to Improve Efficiency and Water Quality
Pinho, Henrique; Barros, Manuel; Teixeira, André; Oliveira, Luís; Matos, Pedro; Ferreira, Carlos; Mateus, DinaThe Smart monitoring of constructed wetlands to improve efficiency and water quality (SmarterCW) project aims to monitor biological wastewater treatment processes by gathering continuous data from remote water and environmental sensors. The acquired data can be processed and analyzed through data science tools to understand better the complex and coupled phenomena underneath wastewater treatment and monitor and...
P-12 INFLUÊNCIA DA SIMULAÇÃO DE ALTA FIDELIDADE NAS COMPETÊNCIAS NÃO TÉCNICAS E...
Simões, Cláudia; Coutinho, Verónica; Oliveira, LuísIntrodução e Objetivos: Os eventos adversos no cuidado à pessoa em situação crítica são maioritariamente atribuídos à falha de competências não técnicas (CNT). O treino destas competências é um complemento essencial ao treino de competências técnicas que, segundo o European Resuscitation Council¹, deve ser agregado ao processo formativo da equipa de emergência. A Simulação de Alta Fidelidade (SAF) tem-se eviden...
Propriedades Biomecânicas e Pressão Intraocular a Longo Prazo em Doentes com Qu...
Marta, Ana; Castro, Catarina; Baptista, Pedro Manuel; Gonçalves, Nadine; Mesquita Neves, Miguel; Gomes, Miguel; Oliveira, LuísINTRODUÇÃO: O nosso objectivo foi comparar as propriedades biomecânicas e a pressão intraocular a longo prazo entre olhos tratados com queratoplastia penetrante (PKP) e queratoplas- tia lamelar anterior profunda (DALK) em doentes com queratocone e doentes saudáveis. MÉTODOS: Estudo retrospetivo observacional caso-controlo com avaliação biomecânica da córnea por imagem de Scheimpflug de alta velocidade du...
Phacoemulsification Alone or Combined with Descemet’s Stripping Without Endothe...
Vieira, Rita; Castro, Catarina; Coelho, João; Mesquita Neves, Miguel; Gomes, Miguel; Oliveira, LuísINTRODUCTION: To compare the efficacy of Descemet stripping without endothelial keratoplasty (DWEK) associated with phacoemulsification versus phacoemulsification alone in patients with moderate cataract and early-stage central Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD). METHODS: Retrospective, comparative, non-randomized study, including all patients with early-stage central FECD who were proposed to cataract ...
Refractive index measurements of tissue and blood components and OCAs in a wide...
Lazareva, Ekaterina N.; Oliveira, Luís; Yanina, Irina Yu; Chernomyrdin, Nikita V.; Musina, Guzel R.; Tuchina, Daria K.; Bashkatov, Alexey N.This chapter presents methods for measuring the refractive index (RI) of biological tissues and blood and their components in a wide range of wavelengths. The advantages and disadvantages of these methods are analyzed. The data for RIs of various biological tissues and blood components measured in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo in a wide spectral range are summarized. The RI kinetics during immersion optical clear...
Invasive and minimally invasive optical detection of pigment accumulation in br...
Oliveira, Luís; Gonçalves, Tânia; Pinheiro, Maria; Fernandes, Luís; Martins, Inês; Silva, Hugo; Oliveira, Hélder; Tuchin, Valery; Oliveira, LuísThe estimation of the spectral absorption coefficient of biological tissues provides valuable information that can be used in diagnostic procedures. Such estimation can be made using direct calculations from invasive spectral measurements or though machine learning algorithms based on noninvasive or minimally invasive spectral measurements. Since in a noninvasive approach, the number of measurements is limited,...
Optical clearing for cancer diagnostics and monitoring
Oliveira, Luís; Tuchin, Valery V.Cancer diseases are of major concern due to the lack of efficient early-stage diagnostic and effective therapeutic methods. Cancer detection is traditionally done at a later stage of development, using ionizing radiation. The pursuit of noninvasive optical methods for cancer detection has increased greatly in the past 30 years, but such methods may be ineffective if tumors are located in deep tissue layers, due...
Broadband spectral verification of optical clearing reversibility in lung tissue
Oliveira, Luís R.; Ferreira, Ricardo M.; Pinheiro, Maria R.; Silva, Hugo F.; Tuchin, Valery V.; Oliveira, LuísThe increase of tissue transparency through sequential optical immersion clearing treatments and treatment reversibility have high interest for clinical applications. To evaluate the clearing reversibility in a broad spectral range and the magnitude of the transparency created by a second treatment, the present study consisted on measuring the spectral collimated transmittance of lung tissues during a sequence ...