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Simulation In Emergency Management And Engineering And Simulation In Health Care, James Anderson
Simulation In Emergency Management And Engineering And Simulation In Health Care, James Anderson
RCHE Publications
The purpose of this study was (1) to investigate the frequency, type and severity of medication errors in a large midwestern private teaching hospital; (2) to assess the impact of the use of pharmacists to detect and correct medication errors; (3) and to construct a computer simulation model to study the problem of medication errors in a hospital.
Design And Evaluation Of Closed-Loop Feedback Control Of Minimum Temperatures In Human Intracranial Tumors Treated With Interstitial Hyperthermia, J A. Deford, Charles F. Babbs, U H. Patel, N E. Fearnot, J A. Marchosky, C J. Moran
Design And Evaluation Of Closed-Loop Feedback Control Of Minimum Temperatures In Human Intracranial Tumors Treated With Interstitial Hyperthermia, J A. Deford, Charles F. Babbs, U H. Patel, N E. Fearnot, J A. Marchosky, C J. Moran
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications
The dynamic nature of blood flow during hyperthermia therapy has made the control of minimum tumor temperature a difficult task. This paper presents initial studies of a novel approach to closed-loop control of local minimum tissue temperatures utilizing a newly developed estimation algorithm for use with conductive interstitial heating systems. The local minimum tumor temperature is explicitly estimated from the power required to maintain each member of an array of electrically heated catheters at a known temperature, in conjunction with a new bioheat equation-based algorithm to predict the ‘droop’ or fractional decline in tissue temperature between heated catheters. A closed …