Background and objectives: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is the most commonly performed operation in general surgery in the Western World. Gallbladder surgery, although most of the time simple, always offers the possibility of unpleasant surprise...
The incidence of common bile duct injuries following laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) remains three times higher than that following open surgery despite numerous attempts to decrease intraoperative incidents by employing better training, superior s...
Background: The gold standard treatment of acute cholecystitis is early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC), as indicated in the Tokyo Guidelines (TG). However, the definition of “early” is still unclear. In 2013, TG suggested surgical inte...
Background/Objectives: The Observational Clinical Human Reliability Assessment (OCHRA) system evaluates surgical performance by identifying intraoperative errors, yet evidence on error patterns and procedural safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (L...
Background and Objectives: Bile duct injury remains a major safety concern during laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and reliable interpretation of hepatocystic anatomy is fundamental to safe dissection. Artificial intelligence (AI)-based computer vision...
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is now established as the worldwide gold standard for the treatment of benign gallbladder disease. Despite technical advancements, bile duct injury (BDI) remains a major concern, especially in patients with obesity. It is...
Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis carries an increased risk of biliovascular injuries. Fluorescence cholangiography (FC) is a valuable diagnostic tool for identifying extrahepatic bile ducts (EHBD). The objective of thi...
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is among the most frequent abdominal operations worldwide, and its safety has improved across three decades. Major vascular injury nonetheless remains a rare but disproportionately lethal complication, capable of producin...
31 December 2022
Cholecystolithiasis is among the most prevalent gastrointestinal disorders requiring surgical intervention, and iatrogenic damage to the bile tree is a severe complication. We aimed to present the frequency of bile duct injuries and how our facility...
Unmanned platforms are becoming more and more widely used in both civilian and military applications. The flight safety of such aircraft is crucial. Therefore, it becomes necessary to formally model and rigorously test their software. Commencement of...
Background and Objectives: Bile duct injury (BDI) is the most serious complication of cholecystectomy. Whether robotic cholecystectomy (RC), now rapidly adopted, changes this risk compared with laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC), including in acute ch...
The introduction and rationalization of the terms ‘Critical View of Safety’ (CVS) in 1995–2000 [...]
11 January 2022
Food safety inspections are a key health protection measure applied by governments to prevent foodborne illness, yet they remain the subject of sustained criticism. These criticisms include inconsistency and inadequacy of methods applied to ins...
Machine Learning (ML) is increasingly applied for the control of safety-critical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in application areas that cannot easily be mastered with traditional control approaches, such as autonomous driving. As a consequence, the s...
The automotive industry’s focus on driver-oriented issues underscores the critical importance of driver safety. This paper presents the development of advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) algorithms specifically tailored for an electric bus...
Guiding user attention across multiple spatial regions is essential for safety-critical activities such as driving and cycling. While peripheral visual cues can redirect attention without disrupting central vision, their effectiveness may diminish un...
29 July 2020
Although mandatory in most high-risk industries, the safety management system (SMS) is often criticized as burdensome and complex. Through its requirement to formalize all main activities, the SMS is perceived as bureaucratic and a vehicle for pure c...
The article presents a comprehensive methodology for assessing the safety of highly automated vehicles (HAVs) based on operational data collected on public roads. The methodology includes a qualitative classification of safety violations according to...
This study is concerned with the critical issue of ensuring safety in the maritime transportation of hazardous materials, specifically LPG and LNG. These gases, which are increasingly adopted as cleaner alternatives to traditional fuels, pose signifi...
The operation safety of rehabilitation devices must be addressed early in the development process and before being tested on people. In this paper, the operation safety of a 2-DoF (degrees of freedom) planar mechanism for arm rehabilitation is addres...
Bearing fault diagnosis is critical for the reliability and safety of rotating machinery in industrial applications. Traditional fault diagnosis methods and single-view deep learning models often fail to capture the complex, multi-dimensional nature...
The design of slopes in open pit mines requires an in-depth understanding of the ground behavior to predict the potential failure mechanism and to better determine the stabilization measures. This study compares the critical slip surface defined by t...
Modern vehicles are no longer merely mechanical systems but are monitored and controlled by various electronic systems. Safety-critical systems of connected vehicles become vulnerable to cyberattacks because of increasing interconnection. At present,...
Lactic acid bacteria (LABs) are microorganisms of significant scientific and industrial importance and have great potential for application in meat and meat products. This comprehensive review addresses the main characteristics of LABs, their nutriti...
Unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) or drones have gained popularity in recent years. However, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is still hesitant to open up the national air space (NAS) to UAVs due to safety concerns because UAVs have several or...
Autonomous driving is a safety-critical system, and the occupancy of its environmental resources affects the safety of autonomous driving. In view of the lack of safety verification of environmental resource occupation rules in autonomous driving, th...
12 February 2022
In recent years, Safe-by-Design (SbD) has been launched as a concept that supports science and engineering such that a broad conception of safety is embraced and structurally embedded. The present study explores the extent to which academics in a dis...
This overview paper highlights the idea that the polytopic approach is more than a modeling technique. It proposes a unified perspective in which polytopic representations constitute a conceptual bridge between complex system dynamics and convex anal...
The Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry is one of the most dangerous industries due to its unique nature. Safety is a critical issue in developed and developing countries. The main objective of this paper was to identify and cl...
Organ toxicity in cancer therapy is likely caused by an underlying disposition for given pathophysiological mechanisms in the individual patient. Mechanistic data on treatment toxicity at the patient level are scarce; hence, probabilistic and transla...
3 March 2021
The current knowledge about patient safety culture (PSC) in the healthcare industry, as well as the research tools that have been used to evaluate PSC in hospitals, is limited. Such a limitation may hamper current efforts to improve patient safety wo...
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is pivotal in enhancing cooperative awareness in vehicular networks. Typically, awareness is viewed as a vehicle’s ability to perceive and share real-time kinematic information. We present a novel defin...
This work intends to define the resolution requirements for near-field projections in a psycho-physical study design to evaluate the participants’ perception under the influence of different ambient lighting levels and various viewing distances...
A collaborative framework by the synergy of Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) process and the Decision-Matrix Risk Assessment (DMRA) in association with safety-color mapping (SCM) is presented, in order to identify critical points and prioritize risks,...
The localization and pose estimation of clinicians in the operating room is a critical component for building intelligent perception systems, playing a vital role in enhancing surgical standardization and safety. Multi-view, multi-person 3D pose esti...
Lactobacillus helveticus KLDS1.8701 isolated from Chinese traditional fermented dairy product has been shown earlier to possess probiotic potentials but it is important to evaluate its safety in view of its possible use as a probiotic. The aim of the...
Due to the nature of their activity, anesthesia and critical care have generally well-developed patient safety cultures, which are linked to a greater level of incident awareness and reporting during clinical activity. In order to determine the statu...
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging industry marked by technological advancements, new operational contexts, and regulatory frameworks. This article examines how to improve safety management in UAM operations by adopting a just culture approach f...
The health and safety of agricultural workers are critical concerns due to their exposure to extreme environmental conditions, physically demanding tasks, and limited access to immediate medical assistance. This study presents the design and developm...
Currently, electric mobility and autonomous vehicles are of top priority from safety, environmental and economic points of view. In the automotive industry, monitoring and processing accurate and plausible sensor signals is a crucial safety-critical...
Visual attention plays a critical role in users’ cognitive evaluation of safety and functionality in interior furniture, particularly for children’s beds, which are inherently safety-sensitive products. This study adopts an integrated app...
Electric scooters have emerged as a prevalent and viable mode of sustainable urban transportation, thereby rendering their safety systems a subject of critical importance. The indicator lights (turn signals) are essential for communicating a rider&rs...
Effective communication in English is a critical behavioral competency for seafarers in a multilingual maritime environment, directly impacting operational safety. However, a gap exists between current Maritime English (ME) training in China and the...
The increasing integration of renewable energy and energy storage systems presents challenges for microgrid scheduling under uncertain operating conditions and multiple operational constraints. Conventional reinforcement learning methods may generate...
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) represent one of the most important public health problems and concerns, as they are a growing cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide, particularly in the elderly. Despite remarkable breakthroughs in our understan...
9 July 2022
Humans are at the core of the social-technical system, and their behavioral errors affect the reliability and safety of the entire system in varying degrees. Occupational accidents and large-scale industrial accidents are often attributed to human er...
Safety inspection of building façades in urban settings is critical for public safety, as many incidents/accidents frequently occur due to falls from façades. This inspection is required for condition assessment of current states and th...
In the last years, artificial intelligence (AI) safety gained international recognition in the light of heterogeneous safety-critical and ethical issues that risk overshadowing the broad beneficial impacts of AI. In this context, the implementation o...
This paper deals with safety-critical, high-power actuation in aerospace applications. Using a system-level synthetic view, it identifies, explains and discusses the reasons why electrically supplied, or power-by-wire, solutions have not spread rapid...
Structural health monitoring of steel buildings requires accurate detection and localization of bolt loosening, a critical yet challenging task due to complex joint geometries and varying environmental conditions. We propose an intelligent framework...
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