Utilización del sistema V-Chair, una smart therapeutical surface, en el cuidado de dos pacientes de alta dependencia y movilidad limitada, con discapacidad intelectual en un centro sociosanitario / Use of the V-Chair system, a smart therapeutical surface in the care of two patients with intellectual disabilities with high dependence and limited mobility

Introducción: El cuidado de pacientes de alta dependencia y movilidad limitada, en la práctica representa que estos pasen largos períodos en la cama y surjan importantes retos para ellos mismos y para sus cuidadores en diferentes dimensiones relacionadas con su descanso, ya sea en cama ya sea en sedestación. El encamamiento puede producir problemas en tres grandes dimensiones: dinámica del paciente en la cama, impacto en los cuidadores que atienden a la persona afectada y complicaciones clínicas relacionadas con la estancia prolongada en la cama. Hoy en día existen en el mercado camas con prestaciones especiales (las smart care beds), que facilitan el cuidado de los pacientes encamados y ayudan a disminuir tanto problemas clínicos relacionados con la situación de inmovilidad como sus repercusiones en los cuidadores a la hora de movilizarlos. A lo largo del artículo veremos que la introducción de la robótica aplicada a los movimientos de las camas inteligentes conlleva a una evolución de estas: las smart therapeutical surfaces. Estas proveen de movimientos robóticos únicos, automatizados, programables y personalizables, lo que puede abrir una nueva dimensión en los cuidados a personas encamadas.Metodología:Se presentan 2 casos clínicos correspondientes a la utilización del sistema V-Chair®, una smart therapeutical surface (S.T. Surface®), con la doble funcionalidad de silla de ruedas eléctrica indoor y cama clínica articulada hospitalaria, con movimientos únicos y patentados no existentes en ninguna otra opción de mercado, que permiten incrementar la calidad de vida y la autonomía del paciente encamado de alta dependencia. Las múltiples opciones de movimientos que permite V-Chair® aparentemente facilitan la prevención y la reducción de problemas clínicos derivados del encamamiento...(AU)

Introduction: Caring for patients with high dependency and limited mobility represents in practice that these patients spend long periods of time in bed, arising important challenges for themselves and for their caregivers in different dimensions related to their rest, either in bed or sitting. Bed confinement can cause problems in three broad dimensions: patient dynamics in bed, impact on caregivers caring for the affected person, and clinical complications related to prolonged stay in bed. Today there are beds on the market with special features (smart care beds) which facilitate the care of bedridden patients and help to reduce both clinical problems related to the situation of immobility, as well as its repercussions on caregivers when mobilizing them, but we will see throughout the article that the introduction of robotics applied to the movements of smart beds leads to an evolution of the same: the smart therapeutical surfaces. These provide unique, automatized, programmable and personalized robotic movements, which can lead to a new dimension in the care of bedridden people.Methods:Two clinical cases are presented corresponding to the use of the V-Chair® system, a Smart Therapeutic Surface (S.T. Surface®) with the dual functionality of indoor electric wheelchair and a clinical hospital bed, with unique and patented movements non existing in any other option on the market. Due to nowadays results apparently increasing the quality of life and autonomy of the highly dependent bedridden patient. The multiple movements options provided by V-Chair® facilitates the prevention and reduction of clinical problems resulting from prolonged bed rest, the reduction of the number of nursing staff required during care and handling tasks, while reducing strain and poor posture on the side of the nursing staff...(AU)

Surgical teaching at the Medical School Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg - basic conceptual description.

Teaching in surgery, one of the classical big clinical and main disciplines beside internal medicine, needs to be also associated with great attention in regard to a valuable final result at the end of the study of human medicine. In particular, surgery is not only the subject to a large number of lectures it also represents one third (four months) of the compulsory internship (practical year - in German, "Praktisches Jahr") at the end of the study of medicine. Therefore, medical teaching of students should be always part of serious and steady attempts to optimize course und contents as a component of guiding activities focussing onto the substantial improvement of the study of medicine. In detail, the classical and traditionally established type of teaching, the (oral) lecture, has to be further developed and reasonably completed by numerous interactive and practice-oriented teaching, learning and examining modalities (obligatory or facultative seminars / courses, training in [very] small groups of students, bed-side teaching, individual practical exercises within the SkillsLab, groups of young researchers, research projects in teaching, scientific publications on topics and recommendable experiences ot teaching including students, "Teach-the-teacher" projects etc.). Although many novel concepts have been inaugurated and considerable advances have been achieved, there is a steady need for further improvement. In the presented representative but medical school-specific overview, the current complex surgical teaching concept, which has been continuously optimized over the last couple of years, at the Otto-von-Guericke University Medical School with University Hospital of Magdeburg (Germany) is described as a scientific and systematizing document as well as a manuscript associated with the ongoing preparation of an institutional "Teaching Manual" on surgical teaching and training for medical students. It should - last but not least - provide the basis for a public discussion, which vice versa might hopefully and possibly result in further structural reforms of (surgical) teaching in the near future.