Staphylococcal skin and soft tissue infections

TJ Hatlen, LG Miller - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2021 - id.theclinics.com
Staphylococcus aureus, a ubiquitous pathogen, is the most common bacteria involved in
purulent acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) 1. Over the years …

Diagnostic methods for the confirmation of non-purulent cellulitis: a review

O Ezemma, AM Korman, HE Wang… - Archives of …, 2023 - Springer
Cellulitis is the most common cause for skin disease hospitalization with costs totaling over
$7 billion. It can be challenging to diagnose due to clinical similarities with other …

Estimating respiratory rate in post-anesthesia care unit patients using infrared thermography: an observational study

N Hochhausen, C Barbosa Pereira, S Leonhardt… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
The post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) is the central hub for recovery after surgery,
especially when the surgery is performed under general anesthesia. Aside from clinical …

The role of internal and external stimuli in the rational design of skin-specific drug delivery systems

Y Chen, N Chen, X Feng - International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2021 - Elsevier
The concept of skin-specific drug delivery with a spatio-temporal control has just recently
received concerns in dermatology. Inspired by the progress in smart materials and their …

A systematic review showing the lack of diagnostic criteria and tools developed for lower‐limb cellulitis

M Patel, SI Lee, RK Akyea, D Grindlay… - British Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Cellulitis can be a difficult diagnosis to make. Furthermore, 31% of patients
admitted from the emergency department with suspected lower‐limb cellulitis have been …

Validation of thermal imaging and the ALT-70 prediction model to differentiate cellulitis from pseudocellulitis

MS Pulia, RJ Schwei, R Alexandridis… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Cellulitis is misdiagnosed in up to 30% of cases due to mimic conditions
termedpseudocellulitis. The resulting overuse of antibiotics is a threat to patient safety and …

Segmenting hotspots from medical thermal images using Density-based modified FC-PcFS with spatial information

T Gupta, I Sreedevi, R Jindal - Quantitative InfraRed Thermography …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Thermal cameras complemented with robust and automated computational intelligence-
aided diagnostic systems can be deployed at public gathering points and on smartphones to …

Assessing the severity of psoriasis through multivariate analysis of optical images from non-lesional skin

M Žurauskas, R Barkalifa, A Alex, M Marjanovic… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Patients with psoriasis represent a heterogeneous population with individualized disease
expression. Psoriasis can be monitored through gold standard histopathology of biopsy …

Normative surface skin temperature changes due to blood redistribution: A prospective study

P Shilco, Y Roitblat, N Buchris, J Hanai… - Journal of thermal …, 2019 - Elsevier
The continuing development and manufacture of infrared devices, together with
improvements in thermal body mapping techniques have simplified surface skin …

The ALT-70 predictive model outperforms thermal imaging for the diagnosis of lower extremity cellulitis: a prospective evaluation

DG Li, AK Dewan, F Di Xia, H Khosravi, C Joyce… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background We previously demonstrated that dermatology consultation substantially
reduces the rates of misdiagnosis of cellulitis; however, broad implementation of …