Month: March 2024

Consensus Guidelines: Postdural Puncture Headache

Consensus Guidelines: Postdural Puncture Headache

In this episode, Dr. Vishal Uppal, whose primary research interests are improving the safety and efficacy of regional anesthesia techniques in high-risk patient populations, discussed his article Consensus Practice Guidelines on Postdural Puncture Headache From a Multisociety, International Working Group: A Summary Report.

Consensus guidelines
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37581893/
Atypical headache following dural puncture in obstetric
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24934311/
A prospective controlled study of continuous spinal analgesia versus repeat epidural analgesia after accidental dural puncture in labour
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22153280/
One patch or more? Defining success in treatment of post-dural puncture headache
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28089183/
Sphenopalatine ganglion block for postdural puncture headache
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19413836/
Major Neurologic Complications Associated With Postdural Puncture Headache in Obstetrics: A Retrospective Cohort Study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31335402/
The volume of blood for epidural blood patch in obstetrics: a randomized, blinded clinical trial
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21596867/

AI and Medical Software Engineering with Hirohito Okuda

AI and Medical Software Engineering with Hirohito Okuda

Our guest is Mr. Hirohito Okuda. Mr Okuda has close to 30 years of working experience in the medical device industry. Currently he is a principal AI engineer at Konica Minolta, Japan where he directs AI engineering across the company, leads generative AI adaptation, helps to establish AI guidelines and is also a member of the AI ethics review committee that reviews all AI products across the company. Prior to that, he was for 2 years an AI R&D division manager at DeNa and for 10 years prior he was a software engineering division manager at General Electric, Japan. Before that, he spent two years as a research software engineer at Yale. The interview was recorded on Dec 6, 2023.

Season Two, Episode Seven: Harold Hongju Koh

Season Two, Episode Seven: Harold Hongju Koh

Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh’s family history is deeply intertwined with Yale Law School. For our bicentennial in 2024, Koh shares his family’s story and reflects on his tenure as Dean from 2004 to 2009, including his work to broaden the school’s focus to make Yale a global law school.

Into the Valley: Indigenous Artistic Rituals in Southwest China

Into the Valley: Indigenous Artistic Rituals in Southwest China

As an ethnographer of art, Dr. Katie Dimmery’s work focuses on the ways in which communities and identities are shaped by artistic ritual in the southwest region of China. Her research attends to the practices of indigenous ritualists and how these practices are situated in regional ethnic and social politics. This conversation traces the history of one particular valley in southwest China and how aesthetics and artistic traditions are being enacted today by the people who live there.

Agile in a Regulated Environment with Bernhard Kappe

Agile in a Regulated Environment with Bernhard Kappe

Our guest is Mr. Bernhard Kappe (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernhardkappe/) who is the founder and CEO of Orthogonal (https://orthogonal.io/), a medical device consulting company. He is also a member of the AAMI working group AAMI SW WG-10 Cloud Computing. This interview was recorded on Nov 16, 2023.

Further Reading:
Kappe B. Accelerating Medical Product Development: Applying Agile Methods to Shorten Timelines, Reduce Risk and Improve Quality [Internet]. Orthogonal; 2020. Available from: https://orthogonal.io/insights/agile/ebook-agile-in-an-fda-regulated-environment/
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). AAMI TIR45: 2023; Guidance on the use of agile practices in the development of medical device software. Arlington VA: Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation; 2023. Report No.: TIR45. https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/aami/aamitir452012r2018?gad_source=1

Agile Lego Game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lA00lDs_R4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKPDScVb5U

Trauma Informed Care

Trauma Informed Care

In this episode, Dr. Tracey Vogel, an obstetric anesthesiologist who is very well-versed in a topic we should all know about, discusses trauma-informed care. What is trauma-informed care, and how can we become a trauma-informed care unit? These and many more questions are addressed during this Podcast. “A service that is not trauma-informed is trauma denied.”

Trauma-Informed Care on Labor and Delivery
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34776109/
Antepartum and intrapartum risk factors and the impact of PTSD on mother and child
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33456935/
Nocebo-induced hyperalgesia during local anesthetic injection
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20042440/
The relationship between women’s intention to request labor epidural analgesia, actually delivering with labor epidural analgesia, and Postpartum depression at six weeks
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28930940/
Impact of patient choice
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30867278/
Patient choice compared to no choice (“Deception study”)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28486595/
Trauma-Informed Care During Pregnancy and Birth
Pain during cesarean delivery: A patient-related prospective observational study assessing the incidence and risk factors for intraoperative pain and intravenous medication administration
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37865217/

YJBM Science News Podcast: Episode 15

YJBM Science News Podcast: Episode 15

Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past week.

Links:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm9903
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-05869-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07130-8
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101367

Software Development with/and AI with Larkin Lowrey

Software Development with/and AI with Larkin Lowrey

Our guest is Mr Larkin Lowrey (https://www.linkedin.com/in/larkinlowrey/). Mr Lowrey has spent the past 30 years in the Software Engineering Product Development space building new product development organizations but also turning around organizations which had fallen into traps resulting in poor quality, execution and products which did not resonate in the marketplace. Most of his career has been in IoT and, notably, he built a telematics platform that was sold to Verizon and now operates as Verizon Networkfleet. Recently he moved into MedTech. He states that there is a lot of overlap between these areas given how medical devices, sensors increasingly make heavy use of cloud analytics platforms. This interview was recorded on Dec
7, 2023.

Further Reading/watching:
Webinar: Crossing the Chasm: Growing Tech Professionals into MedTech Professionals | Orthogonal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB645qIuLFA
Code Generation AI:
• Github Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
Image Generation AI:
• Midjourney https://www.midjourney.com/
• DALL·E https://openai.com/research/dall-e

Maximilian Bartel, Going Out, Looking In

Maximilian Bartel, Going Out, Looking In

Maxi is a internationally-recognized podcaster of Going Out, Looking In, which is “about the big questions of life, personal growth, and spirituality.” His podcast can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/going-out-looking-in/id1660121094

He has interviewed more than 50 thought-leaders from around the world about the good life – psychologists, pastors, spiritual seekers, scholars, and the like. As such, he has amassed an accumulated wisdom, a robust qualitative study, about human flourishing. He also is one of the more warm-hearted, engaging hosts I’ve encountered in the podcast universe.