ECEM NEWS
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20/01/2012
STA Competition Winner
Congratulations to Srinivas Raman, Chris Brouse, Walter Karlen, Mark Ansermino, Guy Dumont for wining the 1st prize in the Computers in Anesthesia Engineering Competition for their work entitled "A Data Fusion Approach for RR Estimation from PPG" at the STA meeting.
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19/01/2012
STA Abstract Award
Congratulations to Chris Brouse (and co-authors Walter Karlen, Guy Dumont, Dorothy Myers, Erin Cooke, Jonathan Stinson, Joanne Lim, Mark Ansermino) for winning the Best Clinical Application of Technology with their work entitled "Measuring Adequacy of Analgesia with Cardiorespiratory Coherence" at the 2012 Society for Technology in Anesthesia annual meeting!
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5/10/2011
Canadian Rising Stars in Global Health
Walter Karlen has submitted an application to Grand Challenges Canada in the Canadian Rising Stars in Global Health program. With the Camera Oximeter project, we aim to reduce the cost of pulse oximeters by using the integrated camera of the mobile phone as the sensor. This novel approach could be used for diagnosis of sepsis and pneumonia in remote locations in low and middle income countries. Please vote for the Camera Oximeter project at: Canadian Rising Stars in Global Health. Voting ends November 11, 2011.
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5/10/2011
Donate your iPhone
With the launch of the new iPhone, please consider donating your used iPhones and/or iPod Touch to our research efforts.
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4/8/2011
Phone Oximeter on Canada AM
This morning the Phone Oximeter made its television debut on Canada AM (nationally broadcast live morning show). Watch Peter and Mark speak about the Phone Oximeter and the Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development grant. Canada AM
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28/7/2011
Saving Lives at Birth
Congratulations to Mark Ansermino and Peter von Dadelszen for leading the team to a seed grant for "Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development". The project is entitled PIERS on the Move
The Challenge
You can read more about the award in our national newspaper, The Globe and Mail: July 28 newspaper article, July 28 online article, July 29 newspaper article
There is also a recording of the award ceremonies held in Washington DC on July 28. US AID
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15/07/2011
CIHR Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Matthias Görges on receiving a CIHR Post Doctoral Fellowship award. He will be working on his project entitled Development and Evaluation of a Mobile Patient Monitoring Device for Nurses in the Intensive Care Unit.
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16/06/2011
CFRI Student Research Forum
Members of the PART and ECEM participated in the annual CFRI Student Research Forum. Congratulations to Emma Whyte, Gill Lauder, Ashley Robinson, Joanne Lim, Nick West, and Mark Ansermino for the 1st place prize in the Clinical Fellows category for their work entitled "Caudal Ultrasound: A Safe and reliable way to identify local anesthetic in the infant caudal epidural space". Congratulations also to Christopher Brouse, Guy Dumont, Dorothy Myers, Erin Cooke, Joanne Lim, and Mark Ansermino for the 1st place prize in the PhD student category for "Wavelet transform cardiorespiratory coherence for monitoring nociception".
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15/06/2011
1st place abstract
Congratulations to Jacqui Hudson, Specky Kimenye, Walter Karlen, Guy Dumont and Mark Ansermino for their award winning abstract entitled "Usability testing of a prototype Phone Oximeter with healthcare providers in high and low medical resource settings" at the annual UBC Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics Research Day. Jacqui did an oral presentation of their abstract in the Anesthesia Resident's category.
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15/6/2011
CHRP awarded
Congratulations to Mark Ansermino and Guy Dumont on receiving a collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) grant for The Phone Oximeter: A simple, mobile device for respiratory disease management in the community
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22/05/2011
IARS Best of Category
Congratulations to Matthias Görges for winning a "Best of Category" (Equipment/Monitoring) at the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) annual meeting for his abstract "Development of a Mobile Monitoring and Communications Solution for Anesthesia Team Members". Congratulations also to abstract co-author Mark Ansermino.
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22/05/2011
Scientific booth wins 2nd place at IARS
Congratulations to members of the PART and ECEM on their 2nd place award at the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) annual meeting for their Scientific and Educational Exhibit on "Intelligent Anesthesia Technology". Thanks to Matthias Gorges, Walter Karlen, Joanne Lim, and Chris Petersen for preparing the demos and manning the booth.
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16/05/2011
Phone Oximeter on YouTube!
Congratulations to members of the PART and ECEM on the world premiere of the musical promotion of the Phone Oximeter on YouTube. Please "Tweet, Facebook, Like" and send to all your friends and family. A big thank you to everyone involved!
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2/4/2011
Best Oral Abstract
Congratulations to Dr Simon Whyte for winning the Best Oral Abstract award at the TIVA-TCI 2011 World Congress of Total Intravenous Anaesthesia and Target Controlled Infusion in Singapore for his abstract on A pilot study to investigate plasma bupivacaine concentrations in children receiving total intravenous anesthesia and caudal analgesia. Congratulations also to co-authors Dorothy Myers, Mary Ensom and Diane Decarie.
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14/02/2011
2010 NSERC Brockhouse Winners
Congratulations to Dr Mark Ansermino and Dr Guy Dumont for winning the 2010 Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering. This prestigious NSERC award recognizes outstanding Canadian researchers who combine their expertise in engineering and sciences.
See also:
NSERC media release
NSERC impact story
UBC Applied Science blog UBC Faculty of Medicine
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13/01/2011
STA Award
Congratulations to Dr Walter Karlen for garnering the Excellence in Technology Award at the Society for Technology in Anesthesia Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, USA for his abstract on Location independence in patient monitoring. Congratulations also to co-authors Mark Ansermino and Mike Blackstock (MAGIC at UBC).
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1/1/2011
Phone Oximeter
Check out our latest developments about the Phone Oximeter project.
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9/11/2010
BCCH Telethon Competition Awards
Congratulations to Dr Simon Whyte who received 2010 Telethon Awards Competition research funding for A pilot study to investigate plasma bupivivaine concentrations in children receiving total intravenous anesthesia and caudal anesthesia.
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28/10/2010
BC Wireless Health Forum
Dr Mark Ansermino presents "The Future of Personalized Sensors for Health & Disease" at the BC Wireless Health Forum sponsored by DigiBC.
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20/10/2010
Best Abstract Award: STA at ASA
Congratulations to Dr. Walter Karlen who presented Capillary Refill Time Assessment Using a Mobile Phone Application (iRefill) at the 2010 American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual meeting. This abstract won the Best Abstract Award for the Society of Technology in Anesthesia (STA) Excellence in Technology Innovation. Congratulations also to co-authors Drs. Chris Petersen, Amelia Pickard, Guy Dumont and Mark Ansermino and the rest of the team!
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28/09/2010
CIHR meeting grant awarded
Our submission entitled "Cell phone oximetry workshop: Canadians working towards improved anesthesia safety around the world" was awarded a grant from CIHR Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Circulatory and Respiratory Health. We will be organizing a workshop early in 2011.
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26/09/2010
2nd Place Award at SAM
Congratulations to Dr. Simon Whyte for presenting “Evaluation of the Intubating Laryngeal Airway in Children” at the 14th Annual Society for Airway Management (SAM) Scientific Meeting (September 24 – 26, 2010). The abstract received the 2nd Place Award (of 88 submissions).
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29/07/2010
CFRI Summer Student Research Program Poster Day
Congratulations to our summer students who participated in the CFRI Summer Student Research Program Poster Day yesterday. In the Clinical Research division:
Srinivas Raman - 1st place - Estimating Respiratory Rate from the Photoplethysmogram
Jules Sleiman - Honourable Mention - Mobile Phone Pulse Oximetry: A Usability Study of iPleth
Serena Shum - A quality assurance audit of pain management at home following pediatric day surgery at British Columbia Children's Hospital -
22/07/2010
iACT Grant Competition
Congratulations to our ECEM recipients of the 2010 iACT Grant Competition research funding. iACT (Innovations in Acute Care & Technology) is a research cluster of the Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI).
- Dr Simon Whyte - A pilot study to investigate plasma bupivivaine concentrations in children receiving total intravenous anesthesia and caudal anesthesia
- Dr Carolyne Montgomery - Pharmacokinetics of oral morphine and pharmacogenetics of CYP2D6 and UGT2B7 in an urban pediatric population (2-6years of age) presenting for elective surgery -
23/06/2010
UBC APT Research Day
Congratulations to Dr. John Chandler in his success at the UBC Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics (APT) 4th Annual Research Dayfor winning 1st place in the Fellows division in the oral presentation competition ("Arterial and plethysmograph waveform relationship in children: two sides of the same coin?"), and 1st place in Anesthesiology in the poster competition ("Visual cues for the interaction of two physiological parameters improve change detection performanace").
Congratulations also to Dr. Amelia Pickard for presenting "A novel method of measuring capillary refill time using photoplethysmography" and Jeremy Daniels presenting "The effectiveness of standard pediatric daycare surgery discharge communication: a quality improvement gap analysis". -
1/6/2010
2011 STA Engineering Challenge
Click the link for more information on the 2011 Society for Technology in Anesthesia Engineering Challenge See Pdf for more information about the competition. Competition is open to all students.
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15/4/2010
Fellowship Award
Walter Karlen has been awarded the CIHR Fellowship for "Smart analysis of exhaled carbon dioxide: algorithm development and clinical evaluation". Congratulations!
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11/2/2010
Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
Walter Karlen has been awarded the prestigious Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI) Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2010. Congratulations!
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29/1/2010
eVent grant renewal awarded
Our project entitled "eVENT: An expert system for detecting ventilatory events during anesthesia" has received a grant renewal from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research .
Congratulations to Mark Ansermino, Guy Dumont, Sid Fels, Stephan Schwarz, Peter Choi, and Valentyna Koval! -
20/1/2010
CapnoBase.org goes online
CapnoBase, a respiratory signal database for research developed by ECEM members, has been published. We invite researchers all over the world to contribute by uploading interesting respiratory signals.
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5/11/2009
Article in the Vancouver Sun
Article in the Vancouver Sun on November 5, 2009: Children's Hospital takes a lesson from parents. The article describes the Bedside Observer project that is currently underway on ward 3R at BC Children's Hospital (Prinicpal Investigator is Dr Mark Ansermino). The Bedside Observer study was chosen as a example by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute for Canadian Patient Safety Week (Nov.2-6, 2009) to demonstrate the message of Ask. Listen. Talk. Vancouver Sun article
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1/11/2009
Martha Piper Research Fund Award
ECEM is pleased to announce that we were awarded the Martha Piper Research fund award for:
Development and Evaluation of a Wireless Pulse Oximeter on a Cell phone (iPleth), for Safe Perioperative Care in Uganda
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22/10/2009
ECEM at the 2009 ASA!
The Electrical & Computer Engineering in Medicine (ECEM) team has just returned from the 2009 American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) conference in New Orleans, LA. American Society of Anesthesiologists newsletter
We presented a Scientific & Educational Exhibit featuring "The Intelligent Anesthesia Navigator". Our booth was very well received by the conference attendees and was judged amongst the 45 entries to receive the 2nd place award!
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20/9/2009
Helping Anesthesiologists Cope
ECEM group's research on intelligent anesthesia monitoring and decision support features the cover article of FOCUS magazine. PDF of the article.
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3/9/2009
Release of iKnow V3.6
The knowledge authoring tool can be downloaded from Flintbox. See website for more information.
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24/08/2009
The future of intelligent monitoring
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14/08/2009
Video presentation of Tactile Display
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9/7/2009
New Webdesign
ECEM has a new webdesign. enjoy!
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22/6/2009
Jeremy Daniels wins Best Poster Award
ECEM medical student Jeremy Daniels wins the CFRI Best Poster Award with his poster A web-based adverse event reporting tool for families.
