• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2014년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.465-468
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• 2014

본 논문은 UWB(Ultra Wide Band) 펄스를 이용해서 인체에 접촉하지 않고 호흡, 심장 박동, 혈압, 혈당 등 생체 신호를 측정할 수 있는 방법을 기술하였다. 생체 신호는 건강을 점검하는 기초 자료로 인간의 활동 영역이 매우 넓어지고 수명이 길어지고 있으므로 기존 병원에 집중된 인적 및 물적 의료 시스템을 환자와 밀접하게 확산시켜서 신속한 치료 및 조치를 취해 건강한 생활을 영위할 수 있도록 요구하고 있다. 이와 같이 환자에 밀접하게 설치되어 지속적으로 불편함 없이 건강을 감시하는 방법으로 전파를 활용하는 방법이 오래 전부터 연구되어 왔으나 전파의 인체에 대한 특성 등을 정확히 파악하지 않고 개발되어 왔으므로 실제 임상에 적용하기에는 원하는 수준의 성능에 도달하지 못해 널리 실용화 되지 않고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 문제점인 인체에 대한 UWB 펄스파의 영향 및 특성 등을 분석해서 기술하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.183-189
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• 2017

Electrosurgical Unit(ESU) is medical equipment that cut or coag tissues using electrical energy. It is used in hospitals' outpatient clinic room and operating room. Improper use of an ESU may cause fatal injuries to the patient, such as burns. So, before using an ESU, make sure that it is supplying enough energy for cut and coag by measuring the output power and checking the output power cable. In this study, we developed a simple ESU power measurement system PW100 that allows anyone to check the basic output power. And PW100 can check the state of the cable associated with the output power before using ESU. Then, we compared the measured output power of the PW100 with an ESU Analyzer which was commercialized, and compared the performance. In the experiment, the output power measured by the PW100 was lower value than an ESU Analyzer's that. However, the PW100's output power measured in the 5% error range and showed stable reproducibility by a low %RSD value.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.132-146
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• 1995

Even though Korean medical law stipulates that number of patients attended by a nurse is 2.5 for hospitalization and 30 for ambulatory care, the number of patients cared by a nurse per day is much greater than the standard prescribed by the medical law. Current productivity of nurses is not desirable unless the quality of care is considered. And nursing manpower staffing based on neither current nurses' productivity nor standard of medical law cannot respond properly to dynamic situation of the medical services. Under this background, the necessity of more efficient management of nursing manpower occupying 1/3 of total hospital workers has been recognized by many nursing administrators. Many nursing researchers have studied to foretell the nursing manpower objectively on the basis of measured nursing workload according to patient classification as well. Most of These researches, however, have been conducted in the tertiary hospitals, so it is imperative to conduct other researches to predict necessary nursing manpower in the secondary and the primary hospitals. The study was performed to measure nursing workload and predict pertinent nursing manpower to a secondary hospital with 400beds. Nursing workload was surveyed using measuring tool for direct and indirect care hours in a surgical unit and a medical unit. Survey was conducted from Sep.10 to Sep.16 and from Oct.5 to Oct.11, 1994 respectively by two skilled nurses, Subjects were patients, patients' family members and nursing personnels. Results are follows : 1. Patient classification distributed as 22% of class I (mildly ill patient), 57% of class II (moderately ill patient), and 21% of class III (acutely ill patient) in the medical nursing unit, while 23% of class I, 29% of class II, 12% of class III, and 36% of classIV (critically ill patient) in the surgical nursing unit. There was no difference of inpatient number between weekday and weekend. Bed circulation rate was 89% in both units and average patients number per day was 37.4 (total 42beds) in the medical nursing unit, 32.9 (total 37beds) in the medical nursing unit. 2. Direct care hours per day measured as 2.8hrs for class I, 3.3hrs for class II, and 3.5hrs for class III in the medical nursing unit, while 3.1hrs for class I, 3hrs for class II, 2.7hrs for class III, and 2.2hrs for classIV in the surgical nursing unit. Meanwhile, hours for nursing assistant activities per patient by patients' family members were 11mins and 200mins respectively. Direct care hour rate by shift was day 36%, evening 25%, and night 39% in the medical nursing unit, while 40%, 29%, and and 31% respectively in the surgical nursing unit. 3. Measurement and observation activity held 44.2% of direct care activities of nurses and medication 36.7%, communication 11.7%, exercise 1.8%, treatment 1.3%, hygiene 1.3%, elimination and irrigation 1.1%, suction 1%, nutrition 0.5%, thermotherapy 0.3%, oxygen therapy 0.1% in order. 4. Indirect care hours per day were 294.2mins in the medical nursing unit, and 273.9mins in the surgical nursing unit. By shift, evening was the highest in both units. Indirect care hours for each patient were 44.5mins in the medical nursing unit and 46mins in the surgical nursing unit. 5. checking activities including doctor's order, medication, and delivering patients to the next shift occupied 39.7% of indirect care activities, and preparation 26%, recording 23.8%, communication and conference 6.7%, managing equipments 2.1%, messenger activity 1.7% in order. 6. On the ground of these results, nursing manpower needed in a secondary hospital was estimated ; 27 nursing personnels for the medical nursing unit of 37beds, and 20 nursing personnels for the surgical nursing unit of 33beds.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.193-199
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• 1999

저자들은 다양한 진료 환경과 연구 수행에 폭 넓게 이용할 수 있는 새로운 온도측정 시스템을 개발하기 위하여 임상에서 필요한 기능과 연구에 요구되는 기능을 가진 간편하고 편리한 온도측정 시스템을 개발하였다. 이 측정 시스템은 일정한 지점의 온도를 정확하고 신속하게 측정하여 기록할 수 있는 장치로서 실용 가능성을 다양하게 검증해 본 결과 기존의 평면적인 열 분포도보다 진보된 등온곡선을 도출할 수 있었으며, 기존의 체온 측정장치보다 더욱 편리하게 진료의 각 분야에 효과적으로 이용할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 본 연구결과에 의한 기대효과 및 향후 활용방안으로는 1) 환자의 체온 변화를 신속하게 진단할 수 있어서 치료효과의 극대화와 부작용의 최소화에 기여할 수 있다. 2) 체온의 변화를 일으키는 다양한 질환의 진단 및 치료성과 판정에 이용할 수 있다. 3) phantom을 이용한 다양한 실험적 연구를 수행할 수 있다. 4) 장기 입원중인 환자들을 대상으로 중앙통제 방식으로 환자들의 상태를 지속적으로 감시할 수 있어서 간호인력의 노동력 절약에 많은 도움을 줄 수 있다. 5) 현재의 기능을 더욱 발전시키면 다양한 질환의 환자들에게 두루 적용할 수 있으며, 환자 감시체제를 위한 필수장비로 이용할 수도 있다.

• 가정∙방문간호학회지
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• 제1권
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• pp.71-76
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• 1993

This study was carried out to investigate agreement, content and demand for home nursing care of hospital inpatients in brain, spain and musculoskeletal diseases. The data was collected by interviewing with 242 patients who were hospitalized in university hospital on Taegu, from September 6,60 October 9, 1993. Of 242 patients, 66.1% agreed to home nursing care system and rate of agreement was highest between 30 years to 49 years of age as 40.4% in general characteristics. The rate of agreement according to type of diagnosis was highest inpatients with spinal diseases as 75.6% according to functional status was the highest in patients who had daily living activity freely as 69.4% according to prognosis in patients at terminal stage as 80.0% and the rate of agreement to home nursing care of patients who wanted early discharge was 73.9% The first-ranking reasons of agreement to home nursing care was asking for continuous relationship with doctor as 37.3% and there was statistically significant difference in reasons of agreement to home nursing care according to functional status of patients. The first-ranking reason of early discharge among patients who wanted early discharge(74.8%) was because of long time stay in hospital. Among 23 items of nursing activity that patient wanted, the first-ranking item was recovery promotion, prevention of complication, education and counseling for health as 76.4%, drug management was 2nd-ranking item as 62.1% and the third was regular checking of vital signs as 55.9%, The lowest item of demand for home nursing care was hospice care(3.9%) and airway keep(9.1%).

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.599-609
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• 2020

Objectives: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has rapidly become a global pandemic with over 26.4 million confirmed cases and approximately 871,000 fatalities worldwide as of this writing. In the Republic of Korea, disease clusters frequently occurred in long-term care hospitals where the majority of residents are elderly with underlying medical conditions. Despite the fact that public health authorities and local community health centers have put tremendous efforts into preventing the spread of disease, positive cases have continued to occur. Thus, the Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention rapid response team decided to conduct an environmental investigation of a long-term care hospital to identify whether environmental contamination has remained and contributed to the spread of COVID-19. Methods: An environmental investigation was conducted at Hospital A. The characteristics of the facility and its HVAC system were assessed by checking the layout and interviewing the people in charge. A total of 64 surface samples were collected from areas of concern, including patient rooms, toilets, elevators, and nurses' station. These samples were tested by a regional health and environmental research institute using real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Results: All samples from Hospital A were confirmed to be negative. Through interviews with high-level personnel at the regional community health center, we found that extensive disinfection is frequently performed on potentially contaminated areas in Hospital A in accordance with government guidelines. Conclusion: The environmental control measures implemented in Hospital A had been sufficient for mitigating the risk of further infection, suggesting that such measures may also be effective for other long-term health care facilities.

• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.112-129
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• 1996

Background : A small number of high cost patients usually spend a larger proportion of scarce health resources. Aged, long-term care and readmitted patients usually belong to these high cost patient group. Among others, long length of stay and readmission can be reduced by checking its cause, and these are the areas needed most of quality improvement activity. Characteristics of high cost medical users between health insurance program and medical assistance program were reviewed. Methods : The inpatient claims of health insurance and medical assistance program were analyzed. Patients were divided by 6 groups; long-term, mid-term, short-term, readmitted, cancer and aged. We defined high cost patients as those who had spent one and half million won and over per 6 months. Characteristics of high cost patients for each group were reviewed. Results : medical assistance patients used much more resources than the insured members in the average hospital cost per case but less in daily hospital cost. The former had a longer length of stay and had much heavier diseases. Major diseases of both group were cancer, diseases of circulatory system and chronic degenerative diseases. Gallstone and schizophrenia were more in the insured program. However, pulmonary tuberculosis, asthma were more common among the medical assistance patients. Early readmission before 2 weeks were 28-30% of the total readmission. Readmission rate in the malignat neoplasm and renal failure were 80% and more. Q.A program should be installed to prevent unnecessary readmissions. Conclusion : Almost 30% of early readmissions and admissions due to complications and long length of stay should be reviewed carefully to keep cost down and to enhance the quality of hospital care.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.456-469
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• 1997

The cerebral infarction arised from occulsion of cerebral artery has a high mortality rate and fatal sequelae. Sohabhyangwon(蘇合香元) is generally regarded to have a effect of walking up the patient from unconsiousness and promoting the flow of Qj(氣) by warming channel. METHOD The purpose of this study is to find out the effections of Sohabhyangwon(蘇合香元) on regional cerebral blood flow and relative cerebral infarction area in the experimentally induced infartion in rats In this experiment, 12 Spraque-Dawley rats weighting 280-350g were used. Cerebral ischemia induced by intraluminal suture technique of Kozumi's and Zea-Longer's method. $Co_{2},\;O_2$, pH, arterial blood pressure in rats were checked by Blood Gas Analyzer every 30 minutes for 2 hours. And regional cerebral blood flow were checking by hydrogen clearance technique, cerebral infarcted area was megsured by Image Analysis System. RESULTS 1. During the experiment, $CO_{2},\;O_2$, pH, arterial blood pressure in rats had no change in both sample group and control group. 2. Cortical cerebral blood flow decreased at same rate in both sample group and control group after inducing cerebral infarction. 3. On comparison of relative cerebral infarcted area, Sohabhyangwon(蘇合香元) perfused group showed a significant decrease. CONCLUSION According to the result above, Sohabhyangwon has a protection effect on cranial nerve and-has no effect on cerebral blood flow.

• 핵의학기술
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.67-75
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• 2018

방사선 안전에 대한 관심과 염려가 전 세계적으로 점차 증가되고 있는 가운데, 의료 실무 현장에 종사하는 방사선 작업종사자의 외부피폭 관리 또한 중요한 이슈로 부각되고 있다. 특히, $^{18}F-FDG$WholeBodyPET/CT검사의 경우 높은 에너지의 방사성동위원소를 사용하므로 검사자의 피폭선량 저감화에 더욱 관심을 기울여야 한다. 따라서, 본 연구는 $^{18}F-FDG$ Whole Body PET/CT 수검자의 거리 별 외부선량률을 측정 및 분석하고, 방사선 작업종사자의 업무 행위 별 누적선량을 확인하여 피폭선량 저감화에 도움이 되는 주요한 요소를 알아보고자 한다. $^{18}F-FDG$WholeBody PET/CT검사를 받은 106명의 환자를 대상으로 검사 종료($75.4{\pm}3.3min$) 후 가슴을 기준 0, 10, 30, 50, 100 cm 거리에서 외부선량률을 측정하였다. 환자측면에서 외부선량률에 영향을 줄 수 있는 개별적 요인을 분석하기 위해 성별, 연령, BMI, 금식시간, 당뇨병 유무, 약물 투여정보, 크레아틴 수치 정보를 수집하였다. 수집된 정보의 통계분석은 ANOVA 분석 및 T-test를 시행하였다. 방사선 작업종사자 측면에서 피폭선량에 영향을 줄 수 있는 요인을 분석하기 위해 주사 업무를 하는 3명의 직원($T_1$, $T_2$, $T_3$)과 스캔 업무를 하는 3명의 직원($T_4$, $T_5$, $T_6$)에 각각 Personal pocket dosimeter를 착용시켜 업무시간 동안 누적된 선량을 기록하였다. 또한 방사선 작업종사자 별 응대시간을 측정하여 분석하였다. 각 거리 별 외부선량은 $246.9{\pm}37.6$, $129.9{\pm}16.7$, $61.2{\pm}9.1$, $34.4{\pm}5.9$, $13.1{\pm}2.4{\mu}Sv/hr$로 산출되었다. 환자측면에서, 근거리에서 성별, BMI, 선량, 크레아틴 수치에 의해 유의미한 차이가 있었지만, 거리가 증가할수록 그 차이는 감소하였다. 그 중 크레아틴 수치의 경우 100 cm에서 집단 간 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보이지 않는 특징이 있었다. 환자 1명으로부터 받은 선량은 주사 업무를 하는 직원($T_1$, $T_2$, $T_3$)의 경우 0.70, 1.09, $0.55{\mu}Sv/person$이었고, 스캔($T_4$, $T_5$, $T_6$)의 경우 1.25, 0.82, $1.23{\mu}Sv/person$이었다. 응대시간이 상대적으로 적은 $T_4$직원의 경우 $T_3$, $T_5$보다 34% 낮은 누적선량을 확인할 수 있었다. 이를 토대로 환자와의 적정거리 유지와 응대시간 감소가 누적선량에 크게 작용함을 알 수 있었다. 위와 같은 점을 고려했을 때, 환자의 충분한 수분 섭취 및 배뇨, 방사선 작업종사자와 환자 간 적정거리유지(최소 100 cm이상) 및 응대시간 감소를 위해 노력해야 할 것이고, 환자의 video tracking system과 장비의 원격조정 등을 통해 피폭선량 저감화를 위해 노력해야 한다.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.93-111
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• 1996

The purpose of the study is to identify the lived experience of mothers who have children with cerebral palsy in order to understand their agony. Moreover, the result of study was to find some nursing intervention for disabled children and their mothers. For this purpose, ten mothers who are willing to cooperate with this research were selected at random from those who have children with the cerebral palsy, currently using the municipal facilities for the handicapped with cerebral malfunction. Data collection was done from October 4, 1994 th December 31, 1994. The data were collected by asking the mothers mentioned above with some unstructured open-ended questions, recorded on the tapes with permission by the interviewee in order to prevent missing of the interviewed contents. These collected data have been substantiated and properly analyzed on the basis of phenomenological approach initiated by Colaizzi's method. The results and validity are proved to be credible by means of the individual checking of the interviewed mothers. The results of this study are as follows : 1. When the mother is first informed of the diagnosis of cerebral palsy on her child, she usually misses the crucial timing needed for proper treatment of the child's disorder because she is notified through the doctor's indifference and his apparently inactive, matter-of-fact attitude. At first she suspects the doctor's diagnosis and tries to attribute it to the unknown cause from a certain genetic problem and then she quickly wants to deny the whole situation that her child is really suffering from the cerebral palsy. The reality is too much for her to accept as it is and she would not believe her child is abnormal. Therefore, she even attempts depend on the power of God for its solution. 2. The mother, who goes thorough this kind of uncommon experiences, is totally devoted to the treatment and care of the child and completely ignores her own life and happiness. At the same time, she feels sorry for her other normal children she believes having not enough care and concern. Also, she feels sorry for the sick child when the child's brothers or sisters show special concern for the patient out of sympathy. It is sorry and not satisfied for her that the child is growing with abnormality and neighbor other around have inappropriate attitudes. Likewise, she is discontent with her husband's lack of concern about the child's treatment. She believes that the health care system in this society isn't fulfilling its due purpose. In the state of her utmost distress and anxiety, she always feels the need of competent consultants, and is angry about that her child is treated as an abnormal being, she is trying to hide the child from other people and to make him or her disappear, if possible. Although she doesn't have harmonious relation with her husband, she id happy when he shows his affection for the child and she feels relieved and thankful when the relatives don't mention about the child's condition Since the child's overall status of health is continuously in unstable conditions, requiring her all-time readiness for an emergency, she feels guilty of her child's illness toward the fEmily members as if it was her own fault to have borne such an abnormal child and she feels responsible for the child morally and financially if necessary Because her life is centered on taking care of the child, she cannot afford to enjoy her own life and happiness. She is a lonely mother, fatigued, with no proper relationship with other people around her. With this sense of guilt and responsibility as a mother of an unusual disease, she has no choice but to grieve her destiny from which she is not allowed to escape. 3. Nevertheless, the mother with the child suffering from the cerebral palsy does not easily give up the hope of getting her child cured and she believes that in the long run, though slower than hoped, her abnormal son or daughter will be eventually cured to become a normal sibling someday. This kind of hope is sustained by the mother's strong faith coming from observing the progress of other similar children getting better. Sometimes she is encouraged to have this faith by other mothers who share the same painful experiences, believing that her child will improve even more rapidly than others with the same palsy. Full of hope, she painstakingly waits for the child's healing. Moreover, she plans to have another child. she thinks that the patient child's brothers and sisters only can truly understand and look after the patients. However, when she notices that the progress of other children under the treatment does not look so hopeful, she is distressed by the thoughts that her child may never get well. Too, she is worried that the patient's brother or sister will be born as the same invalid with the cerebral disease. She is discouraged to have another baby as much as she is encouraged to. She is also troubled by the thought that in case she has another baby, she will have to be forced. to neglect the patient child, especially when she does have an extra hand or some reliable person to help her with taking care of the patient.