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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"Neurosurgery"”.
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Surgical site infections in Neurosurgery
Background Surgical site infection (SSI) is associated with a high morbidity and mortality. We sought to define the incidence of SSI at our institution and examine the risk factors for infection. Methods An observational, retrospective cross-sectional review of 676 patients older than 13 years old …
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OligoChannel Spectral Analysis in stereotactic laser neurosurgery
In stereotactic laser neurosurgery a tumor in the human brain is resected by a pulsed high energy laser beam. The laser beams for diagnosis and ablation of cancerous tissue are supplied through a probe. The whole resection is planned with a computer system. These planning data are based on …
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Tethered Magnetic Serial Robots for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
The high-speed, non-ionizing, wireless power transfer capabilities of low-frequency magnetic fields make them an attractive option for actuating devices on the nanometer scale up to the centimeter scale, enabling a new suite of minimally-invasive techniques for a wide variety of medical procedures. …
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Verbs and nouns in awake neurosurgery: needs and answers
Awake surgery is a surgical procedure applied to people with brain tumors. Patients are kept awake during surgery to perform language tasks during electrical stimulation of cortico-subcortical brain structures. When the application of electrical pulses to the brain repeatedly triggers errors, this …
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Elucidating the Principles of Brain Network Organisation through Neurosurgery
… outlined the need for prospective trials in neurosurgery to establish the clinical relevance of connectomics. This doctoral dissertation addresses this challenge by using diffuse gliomas as a model to study the principles of brain network organisation through neurosurgery. Specifically, I …
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Preventable Errors and Complications in Neurosurgery /// Предотвратими грешки и усложнения в неврохирургията
Настоящият дисертационен труд си поставя за цел, въз основа на обстоен анализ на литературата свързана с предотвратимите грешки и усложнения в неврохирургията, да разработи и да въведе рутинно в клиничната практика универсален неврохирургичен чеклист за предотвратяване на всички форми на хирургия …
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Risk, Outcomes, and Costs in Neurosurgery – The New Frontier in Health Services Research
… Health services research driven from within neurosurgery can be used to improve access to and quality of care, while helping to control costs. Aim: To answer clinically relevant questions that make a difference in patient care.Methods: We chose to use the American College of Surgeons National …
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Clinical applications of somatosensory evoked potentials in pediatric neurosurgery / by Ian Roger Whittle
Bibliography: leaves 156-173; x, 173 leaves, [6] leaves of plates
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Incorporation of diffusion tensor MRI in non-rigid registration for image-guided neurosurgery
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
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Can You Hear Me Now?: Doctor-Patient Communication and Applications of Neurosurgery in Telemedicine
This research project explored patient's perceptions of telemedicine. This is a new technology that allows doctors and patients to meet in two different locations and have their medical appointments through videoconferencing equipment. Three research questions were posed dealing with telemedicine, …
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Image-guided neurosurgery : integration of medical image data with real-time view of the surgical field
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1997.
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Multi-modality image fusion by real-time tracking of volumetric brain deformation during Image Guided Neurosurgery
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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A Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) Approach to Compare Cardiovascular, Orthopedics, Trauma Care, and Neurosurgery
… surgery, orthopedic surgery, trauma care, and neurosurgery were collected and coded using HFACS. We analyzed almost 8,943 intraoperative events. Trained analysts used three coding strategies: unanimous, majority, and reconciled consensus to assess interrater reliability.</p> <p><strong>Main …
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Neurosurgery in Resource-Poor Settings: Improving Access to Surgical Education and Outcomes Analysis of Spine Surgery in a Training Hospital in Cambodia
BACKGROUND: Access to basic surgical care, and neurosurgery in particular, has historically been a neglected topic in the global health sphere. However, up to 30% of the global burden of disease is surgical in nature and great strides have been made in the past few years to spotlight and begin to …
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Ultrasound as a non-invasive diagnostic tool in paediatric neurosurgery : relationship between the optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) and intracranial pressure (ICP)
Background: Assessment of intracranial pressure (ICP) is an essential aspect in the management of most neurosurgical conditions in children. While invasive ICP monitoring is considered the criterion standard, the need for a reliable, non-invasive, easy-to-use and accurate method to detect and …
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Clinical psychology in a general hospital : conflicts and paradoxes
… working as an intern clinical psychologist in a Neurosurgery unit are discussed in terms of the insight they provide in understanding implicit assumptions about and expectations of psychology. In addition, the head of this Department of Neurosurgery and the two clinical psychologists working in …
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Management of Neurotrauma in Low-Resource Settings
… neurosurgical trials and call upon the global neurosurgery community to invest in research capacity building in LMICs as an essential step towards ensuring context- and resource-specific high-quality evidence is generated. A total of 73.3% of the 397 studies that met inclusion criteria were led …
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Focus and context for volume visualization
… This is a very important issue in the field of neurosurgery, usually carried out through the visualization systems offered by the imaging equipment being used. However, the use of those systems in the operating theatre is not commonly possible, as the system requires the equipment to be present …
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Network approaches to understanding the functional effects of focal brain lesions
… have hitherto not been extensively explored in neurosurgery. The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the field of connectomics can contribute to understanding the effects of focal brain lesions and to functional brain mapping in neurosurgery. This datasets for this thesis include a clinical …
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Development, Validation, and Testing of a Sonification Framework with a Neurosurgical Targeting Task
… of modular sonification technology in a VR neurosurgery simulation. The primary goal is to examine the effects of sonification on task performance in these scenarios and affirm the viability of some of the methods incorporated into the technology. The findings show that, while virtual …
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