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Background/Objectives: The demand for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has increased over the past few years, increasing the EMS burden. Public utilization of EMS for non-emergency cases is a major global issue contributing to this burden. This study...

Serotonin syndrome (SS) is a clinical toxidrome with high variability in clinical practice. It develops due to increased serotonin levels in the central nervous system. With an underestimated frequency, SS can develop following an overdose, a therape...

Pneumonia is a common infectious disease. Currently, the most common method of pneumonia identification is manual diagnosis by professional doctors, but the accuracy and identification efficiency of this method is not satisfactory, and computer-aided...

Ambient intelligence has advanced significantly during the last few years. The incorporation of image processing and artificial intelligence techniques have opened the possibility for such aspects as pattern recognition, thus allowing for a better ad...

For nearly a decade, case reports and series have emerged regarding dysautonomias—particularly postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)—presenting soon after vaccination against human papilloma virus (HPV). We too have observed a...

Event recognition is one of the most active research areas in video surveillance fields. Advancement in event recognition systems mainly aims to provide convenience, safety and an efficient lifestyle for humanity. A precise, accurate and robust appro...

The application of spectral sensors mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assures high spatial and temporal resolutions. This research focused on canopy reflectance for cultivar recognition in an olive grove. The ability in cultivar recognition...

In this paper, various methodologies of acoustic and language models, as well as labeling methods for automatic speech recognition for spoken dialogues in emergency call centers were investigated and comparatively analyzed. Because of the fact that d...

Compartment syndrome is an orthopedic emergency that require early recognition and urgent intervention to avoid catastrophic complications. High index of suspicion is required for early diagnosis based on a constellation of signs and symptoms that in...

Case Presentation: This report describes a case of acute severe myelopathy attributed to nitrous oxide abuse in a 30-year-old patient presenting with gait instability. Background and Clinical Significance: It depicts the challenges of early recogniti...

Emergency incidents can appear anytime and any place, which makes it very challenging for emergency medical services practitioners to predict the location and the time of such emergencies. The dynamic nature of the appearance of emergency incidents c...

In recent decades, religious spaces have increasingly become subject to heritage processes, encompassing both their tangible dimension and the emerging concept of intangible cultural heritage. This article examines the legal strategies available for...

Sickle cell trait (SCT) occurs in about 8% of African-Americans and is often described to be of little clinical consequence. Over time, a number of risks have emerged, and among these are rare but catastrophic episodes of sudden death in athletes and...

The chirality of biopolymers and its emergence from the racemic prebiotic world is one of the key mysteries of science. There are many versions on how the total chiral balance breaking occurred, but they all face an insoluble challenge—the impo...

Systemic dehydration and diffuse central nervous system signs without any other illness is referred to as dehydration encephalopathy (DE). However, the incidence of DE at emergency units remains uncertain. We investigated the incidence of DE among pe...

Drinking water supply is at the core of both, humanitarian action in times of crisis, as well as national policies for regular and emergency supply. In countries with a continuous water supply, the population mostly relies ingenuously on the permanen...

The need for non-face-to-face online health care has emerged through the era of “untact”. However, there is a lack of standardization work and research cases on the exercise effect of immersive content. In this study, the possibility of the exercise...

Background and Objectives: The pandemic of SARS-CoV-19 has affected the overall spectrum of General Surgery, either in the case management part, or in the type of cases. The purpose of this review is to gather all the parameters affected and to compa...

Human action recognition and detection from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, has emerged as a popular technical challenge in recent years, since it is related to many use case scenarios from environmental monitoring to search and rescue. I...

Here, we present a case series of four patients diagnosed with acute ischaemic stroke due to occlusion of the artery of Percheron (AOP), a rare stroke variant, observed in a single emergency centre within a three-month period. AOP occlusion is charac...

Object detection, one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in computer vision. Nowadays some dedicated embedded systems have emerged as a powerful strategy for deliver high processing capabilities including the NVIDIA Jetson family. The a...

Automated recognition of surgical phases is a prerequisite for computer-assisted analysis of surgeries. The research on phase recognition has been mostly driven by publicly available datasets of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (Lap Chole) videos. Yet, v...

Background/Objectives: Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a severe medical condition involving the cessation of the heart’s mechanical activity. Following the chain of survival, which includes early recognition and calling for help, early initiatio...

Human subcutaneous dirofilariasis caused by Dirofilaria repens is an emerging zoonotic parasitic infection increasingly observed in southern Europe. We report a case of a woman from western Sicily, who likely acquired the infection locally through a...

In December 2020, Candida auris emerged in Brazil in the city of Salvador. The first two C. auris colonized patients were in the same COVID-19 intensive care unit. Antifungal susceptibility testing showed low minimal inhibitory concentrations of 1 µg...

The paper presents a novel hybrid network for large-scale action recognition from multiple modalities. The network is built upon the proposed weighted dynamic images. It effectively leverages the strengths of the emerging Convolutional Neural Network...

The inspiration behind this specific research is based on addressing the growing need to improve road safety via the application of the Internet of Things (IoT) system. Although several investigations have discovered the possibility of IoT-based acci...

Targeting of proteins in the histone modification machinery has emerged as a promising new direction to fight disease. The search for compounds that inhibit proteins that readout histone modification has led to several new epigenetic drugs, mostly fo...

Vaccination is an effective means to prevent infectious diseases including tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), an emerging Flavivirus infection. There is, however, only limited knowledge about risk of vaccination failure, the disease course and the challe...

Gemcitabine is a chemotherapeutic agent used in a wide variety of solid tumours. Known side effects include a dose-limiting myelosuppressive toxicity, mild rash, and radiation-dependent dermatitis. Rarely, localized inflammation in the form of pseudo...

Constructed emergency response scenarios provide a basis for decision makers to make management decisions, and the development of such scenarios considers earlier historical cases. Over the decades, the development of emergency response scenarios has...

The analysis and recognition of sign languages are currently active fields of research focused on sign recognition. Various approaches differ in terms of analysis methods and the devices used for sign acquisition. Traditional methods rely on video an...

In this paper, we report the results of our work on automated detection of qanat shafts on the Cold War-era CORONA Satellite Imagery. The increasing quantity of air and space-borne imagery available to archaeologists and the advances in computational...

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart devices has led to an increasing demand for real-time data processing at the edge of networks closer to the source of data generation. This review paper introduces how artificial intelligence...

Efficient emergency load transfer is crucial for ensuring the power system’s safe operation and reliable power supply. However, traditional load transfer methods that rely on human experience have limitations, such as slow response times and lo...

Prenatal diagnosis comprises a set of investigations, both instrumental and laboratory-based, which aim to monitor the health of the foetus during pregnancy, from the early stages of embryonic development to the moments preceding delivery. A growing...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of knowledge of resident dentists and new graduates regarding the etiology, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of the main medical emergency conditions. The study included a sample of 152 new graduates a...

Background: Sepsis and septic shock are medical emergencies with increasing incidence and high intrahospital mortality rates, as they are common causes of admission to the intensive care units (ICU). Early recognition and adequate treatment are impor...

Although the existing literature provides some evidence of identity transformation among STEM teachers following their participation in various communities of practice (CoPs), the specific mechanisms driving this transformation remain unclear. This s...

Endoscopic methods are emerging as a possible adjunct to surgery in the management of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Initially, endoscopic treatment has failed because of inefficient suturing devices, and although over many years it proved to be sa...

As of now, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread to over 770 million confirmed cases and caused approximately 7 million deaths. While several vaccines and monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have been developed and deployed, natural selection against immune recog...

PF4-dependent disorders encompass a heterogeneous group of immune-mediated thrombotic syndromes, including heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT), its autoimmune variants such as spontaneous HIT, and vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia...

Plaque erosion (PE) is now recognized as a common and clinically significant cause of acute coronary syndromes (ACSs), accounting for up to 40% of cases. Unlike plaque rupture (PR), PE involves superficial endothelial loss over an intact fibrous cap...

Penetrating aortic injuries represent critical medical emergencies that necessitate immediate intervention to prevent life-threatening consequences. When accompanied by the presence of an enormous right pleural false aneurysm, the clinical scenario b...

This article provides an applied analysis of Article 12 (Equal recognition before the law) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and Article 13 (Access to justice) in the context of Article 6 (Women with disabilities). R...

Background: Many neurological manifestations are part of COVID-19 infections, including movement disorders, but a clinical picture closely resembling stiff-person syndrome has not yet been described. Case presentation: We report a case of a stiff-per...

I deal with perception and action (e.g., movements) using results from synergetics, a comprehensive mathematical theory of the self-organized formation (emergence) of spatial, temporal, or functional structures in complex systems. I illustrate basic...

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is an emerging, relatively newly recognized allergic disorder with clinical manifestations that occur as a result of hypersensitivity reactions to oligosaccharide galactose-α-1,3-galactose (α-gal), a carbohydrate...

Engagement of PRRs in recognition of PAMPs or DAMPs is one of the processes that initiates cellular stress. These sensors are involved in signaling pathways leading to induction of innate immune processes. Signaling initiated by PRRs is associated wi...

The increasing demand for industrial products has expanded production quantities, leading to negative effects on product quality, worker productivity, and safety during working hours. Therefore, monitoring the conditions in manufacturing environments...