New bowel-sound sensor helps assess postop ileus
(Reuters Health) -- A new bowel-sound sensor can be used to assess patients for postoperative ileus, according to a validation study by its inventors.
AbStats listens to gut sounds so you don’t have to
(medGadget) -- Post-operative ileus (POI) is defined as “the absence of intestinal peristalsis without mechanical obstruction”. It is a serious condition that can make recovery from surgery a challenge. Now a new device developed at UCLA that autonomously listens to gut sounds to evaluate how things are moving down there has been shown to be [...]
UCLA researchers develop wearable biosensor for detecting GI disorder postsurgery
(FierceMedicalDevices) -- “Listen to your body” is good advice for healthy living, and University of California, Los Angeles, researchers have developed a device that does just that in order to determine how soon patients should be fed following surgery.
To eat or not to eat
(UCLA Newsroom) -- A disposable plastic listening device that attaches to the abdomen may help doctors definitively determine which post-operative patients should be fed and which should not, an invention that may improve outcomes, decrease healthcare costs and shorten hospital stays, according to a UCLA study.
Disposable biosensor may help physicians determine which patients can safely be fed following surgery
(Science Daily) – A disposable plastic listening device that attaches to the abdomen may help doctors definitively determine which post-operative patients should be fed and which should not, an invention that may improve outcomes, decrease healthcare costs and shorten hospital stays, according to a UCLA study.
Validation of an acoustic gastrointestinal surveillance biosensor for postoperative ileus
(Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery) -- The authors tested whether acoustic gastro–intestinal surveillance (AGIS) can distinguish healthy controls from patients recovering from abdominal surgery. This study suggests that non–invasive, abdominal acoustic monitoring distinguishes postoperative ileus (POI) from non–POI subjects.