
Biomedical Engineering Applications for People with Disabilities and the Elderly in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Description
Key Features
- Includes coverage of smart protective care tools, disinfectants, sterilization equipment and equipment for rapid and accurate COVID-19 diagnosis
- Focuses on the limitations and challenges faced by the elderly and people with disabilities in pandemic situations, such as limitations on leaving their homes and having caregivers and family visit their homes. How can technology help?
- Discusses tools, platforms and techniques for managing patients with COVID-19
Readership
Biomedical engineers, computer engineers, roboticists, occupational and physiotherapists, rehabilitation engineers, and healthcare providers. Researchers in medical devices and students in engineering.
Table of Contents
1. Physical activities for the elderly in a pandemic context during a relaxation of restrictions
2. Intelligent remote system for assessing a subject’s health during sleep
3. An exhaustive study on recent developments in the voltammetric sensors for the b-blocker propranolol hydrochloride
4. Cloud-IoMT-based wearable body sensors network for monitoring elderly patients during the
COVID-19 pandemic
5. Indoor physical activities for the elderly during the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic
6. Animated line, bar, and bubble plots for better COVID case analysis: Using R programming
7. Applications of physical activity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in elderly people
8. Recovery activities for the locomotor system during the COVID-19 pandemic
9. The emerging association between boredom, COVID-19 anxiety, and aggressiveness in imposed prolonged social isolation
10. COVID-19 research: Open data resources and challenges
11. Comprehending COVID-19 as a contact network
12. Coronavirus: Diagnosis, detection, and analysis
13. Artificial intelligence: A boon for COVID-19 disease management
14. Radiotherapy for pelvic malignancies in a COVID-19 pandemic scenario: Focus on rectal and cervical cancers
15. A warehouse of information, COVID HUB: Data handling made simple!
16. Publisher software application for braille devices
17. Challenges caused by the pandemic for the recovery program of cervical disc herniation
18. Strength training program for postmenopausal women with osteoporosis
19. The role of vitamin D and physical activity on osteopenia and osteoporosis
20. Osteoporosis: Evaluation and complications
21. Sedentarism―A predominant factor in difficult post-COVID-19 recovery
22. Improving the body’s immunity against SARS-CoV-2 through exercise
23. Respiratory dispositive with intelligent shape-memory alloy wires to help artificial ventilation during sleep for SARS-CoV patients
24. Smart sensing and actuators for people with hand motion impairment: Assessment and support
25. Inner and outer conflicts born during the COVID-19 lockdown: A thematic analysis perspective
26. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychomotric components in chess games for children aged 8-10
27. Impact of physical activities on overweight people during the COVID-19 pandemic
28. Vulnerabilities and new critical security challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT)
29. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the physical and mental health of the elderly
30. A smart virtual vision system for health monitoring
Product details
- No. of pages: 382
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2022
- Published: June 1, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323851749
About the Editors
Valentina Emilia Balas

Affiliations and Expertise
Oana Geman
Affiliations and Expertise
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