QuickScale 2.0: The development of a user-oriented interface for a weighing tool utilized in on-site weight measurement. Aiding in forensic early post-mortem interval estimation.

Post-mortem interval estimation (PMI) is a key part of forensic investigation. Accurately obtaining a PMI early in the investigative process improves the reconstruction of events, directs follow-up research and narrows down suspects in case of homicide. Currently, PMI is determined using Henssge’s nomogram requiring ambient temperature, rectal...

Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Improving the Information Provision for Hemophilia Patients

Hemophilia, a bleeding disorder, is divided into types A and B, resulting from coagulation factors VIII and IX deficiencies. The levels of these clotting factors in the body determine the severity of hemophilia. The classification includes severe, moderate, and mild hemophilia. Managing hemophilia involves options like on-demand and prophylactic...

The ICU-Recover Box: Using Smart Technology For Monitoring Health Status After ICU Admission

Patients who are admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are extremely ill and at high risk of organ failure and death. Being admitted to the ICU is known to cause long lasting physical, cognitive, and physiological symptoms, which is called Post-Intensive Care syndrome (PICS). To provide better management of PICS, early recognition and...

Design of a low-cost device for Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in low and middle-income countries

Many people living in low-middle-income countries (LMICs) are affected by injuries that develop into chronic wounds and, without adequate treatment, may lead to disabilities or even cause death. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) is currently a highly suitable manner to treat complex and chronic wounds. NPWT uses controlled negative pressure...

Reducing the environmental impact of syringes in the Intensive Care Unit

This graduation project focused on reducing the environmental impact of syringes on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Erasmus University Medical Centre (MC) by designing solutions based on circular economy.<br/><br/>The ICU of Erasmus MC produces an excessive amount of waste and initiated the transition towards a circular ICU. Syringes and their...

Reducing the environmental impact of gloves used in the Intensive Care Unit: Towards greener ICUs

Background<br/>The healthcare sector is one of the most polluting sectors in the Netherlands. To limit the environmental impact of the medical sector, Erasmus MC collaborated with Metabolic to conduct a Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and Impact Assessment for the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The research revealed the hotspots of the ICU,...

Face it; a visual fore-glimpse in AR for facial skin cancer patients' surgery?

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the Netherlands, often caused by having too much exposure to UV radiation from the sun. An effect of this is that the part of the body that is exposed the most to the sun is also the body part where skin cancer is seen more often; the head. When the skin cancer gets removed surgically, the defect...

Development of a novel steerable embolization microcatheter: for endovascular tumor treatment

Microcatheters are used for endovascular diagnosis and treatment purposes. Variations of this minimally invasive instrument, accompanied by guidewires, are manipulated through the vasculature towards the target of the intervention. The human vascular anatomy can however present complex pathways towards a target, for example a distal tumor....