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The world continues to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, and there is concern over the increase in the needs of older people for nursing care. In this study, the relationships of the "tooth condition” with mobility and cognitive function were investigated in 1,000 residents of 14 special elderly nursing homes. In those using well-fitting dentures, the percentage of those capable of independent indoor mobility was highest at 21.6%, and the percentages of those able to communicate (66.2%), understand routines (47.5%), state their own age (36.2%), remember recent events (45.0%), state their own name (85.7%), understand seasons (43.7%), and understand places (46.4%) were significantly higher than in those in other "tooth conditions”. This study clarified the relationships of the "tooth condition” with mobility and cognitive function, and maintaining an adequate "tooth condition” was suggested to contribute to the prevention of a condition requiring long-term nursing care. © 2023 Asian Society of Human Services.
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Purpose: We examined the effect of COVID-19 on diseases treated with hepato- biliary- pancreatic surgery from the experience of nosocomial infection at our hospital. Method(s): We examined the treatment of 106 patients admitted by the Division of Hepato- Biliary- Pancreatic Surgery to The Jikei University Hospital for elective surgery from January through May 2020. Result(s): Of the 106 operations, 90 (85%) were performed as scheduled and did not include COVID-19-positive patients. Operations for 16 patients (15%) were postponed, but 5 (31%) of these operations were urgent or quasiurgent and were performed during the study period. Of 95 patients who underwent surgery, 50 (53%) had a malignant tumor, 3 (3%) had a borderline malignant tumor, and 42 (44%) had a benign lesion, of which 41 were gallstones or gallbladder polyps and 1 was an intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm that caused pancreatitis. Surgery for the latter tumor was postponed while conservative treatment improved conditions, but pancreatitis recurred 2 weeks after discharge, leading to a quasiurgent surgery. Conclusion(s): Owing to COVID-19, 15% of the scheduled elective hepato- biliary- pancreatic operations were postponed. Even lesions considered benign or not requiring emergency surgery should be treated promptly. Thus, the timing of treatment should be determined so that the risks of exacerbation and COVID-19 can be balanced.Copyright © 2022 Jikei University School of Medicine. All rights reserved.
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Recent years, classes, conferences and group works in companies and universities have been done as online, which means people don’t have chances to hold them in person because of preventing infections of COVID-19. In regard to these ways of using an online meeting, there is a problem that people who attend online meetings have a strong tendency to have a cognitive load due to having burden behaviors such as discussing and operating PC, smartphone and tablet devices at the same time in comparison with in-person meeting. Particularly, when it comes to using telepresence robots, it is needed for operators to be required to pay much attention. In this study, for diminishing operators’ cognitive load, a supporting system which operating telepresence robots OriHime by using the movement information of operators’ head is proposed. Moreover, we identify that there is a chance to diminish operators’ cognitive load through obtaining information of face position by using telepresence robot, although the effect of the proposed system is set to be revealed by conducting an experiment. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
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Some patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) experienced sudden death because of sudden symptom deterioration. Thus, an alarm system that could detect early signs of COVID-19 exacerbation beforehand, to prevent serious illness or death of patients while receiving outpatient treatment at home or in hotels is necessary. Here, we tested whether estimated oxygen variations (EOV), a relative physiological scale that represents users' blood oxygen saturation level during sleep measured by Fitbit, predicted COVID-19 symptom exacerbation. Study period was from August to November 2020. We enrolled 23 COVID-19 patients diagnosed by SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction-positive (mean age ± standard deviation, 50.9±20 years;70% female), let each patient wore the Fitbit for 30 days;COVID-19 symptoms were exacerbated in 6 (26%). High EOV signal (a patient's oxygen level exhibits significant dip and recovery within the index period) had 80% sensitivity before symptom exacerbations, whereas resting heart rate signal only had 50% sensitivity. Coincidental obstructive sleep apnea syndrome confirmed by polysomnography was detected in a patient by consistently high EOV signals. This pilot study successfully detected early COVID-19 symptoms exacerbation by measuring EOV and may help to identify early signs of COVID-19 exacerbation.
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Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of educational institutes have been forced to execute online distributed education. In traditional courses conducting not only lectures but also practice, the instructor and teaching assistants walk around the class, check how the students are doing, find students who are having trouble, and guide them. However, in distributed education, it is difficult to do the same things as in a collocated environment;therefore, some measures are required. We have been conducting introductory software engineering education that applies web application development in addition to lectures. In the fully online implementation of this course, the following issues need to be considered: (1) the creation of a mechanism to mitigate problems regarding the building of a software engineering environment, and (2) the creation of a question and answer process during application development on a remote meeting system. This paper describes some solutions to the two issues.
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On account of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of educational institutes have been forced to execute online distributed education. We have been providing an introductory software engineering course that conducts the practice of web application development in addition to lectures. Our goal was to provide students with a face-to-face lecture-like experience in a fully online distributed environment. We have redesigned the course to achieve this goal, with less preparation time (about two weeks). We have been holding an introductory software engineering education that conducts practice of web application development in addition to lectures. In traditional subjects, conducting lectures as well as practices, the instructor and teaching assistants walk around the class, check how the students are doing, identify and guide the students who have trouble with their practices. In distributed education, it is difficult to do accomplish these tasks;therefore, some measures are required. For this reason, we have developed tools to automate the building of a software development environment on students' PCs and to support questions and answers during web application development tasks. In this paper, we report on the practice of web application development in this course and the students' evaluations thereof. © 2020 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).