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A drone network could be deployed to speed defibrillators to bystanders trying to help people in cardiac arrest, getting the devices to the patient faster than emergency services, a recent Canadian study suggests. Researchers examined historical data on 53,702 cardiac…
A Toronto-based expert with a new vision for engaging people with dementia will bring his message to the University of Regina tonight. “We are not being very realistic about how we look at people as they get dementia,” said University…
Right now, more than 25 per cent of Canadians suffering from dementia in long-term care facilities are given antipsychotic medications. It’s often used a way to address hard to manage or aggressive behaviour. Mark Chignell is a professor with the…
As part of Brain Awareness Week, the Centre on Aging and Health at the U of R will have a guest speaker from Toronto talk about helping people with dementia. Dr. Mark Chignell, who has a doctorate in mathematical psychology…
Sirens wail as responders race to apply a defibrillator shock to patients in cardiac arrest but often, they’re too late: Only 10% of people survive. But that could change, says industrial engineer Timothy Chan, a professor at the University of…
This article, originally appeared in the October 2016 issue of Skulematters magazine, included: Optimizing surgical schedules (Dionne Aleman) Walk this way (Jan Andrysek) Optimizing ambulance distribution and routing (Timothy Chan, Justin Boutilier) Reducing the risks of cycling (Marianne Hatzopoulou, Sabreena…
News Item – U of T MasterCard Foundation scholar Sylvia Mwangi hopes to improve health care in Kenya
When it comes to demonstrating the transformative power of higher education, it’s hard to find a better example than Sylvia Mwangi. The amount of personal growth the industrial engineering student has experienced while at U of T may be as…
The Centre for Healthcare Engineering is please to announce that Christopher Sun is the inaugural recipient of the PPEF-6T6 Industrial Engineering 50th Anniversary Award in Healthcare Engineering (please see Award Announcement) for his outstanding work during his graduate studies. Christopher…
MIE would like to thank John Peri (IndE 8T4) and his family for their generous donation of $250,000, which will go towards supporting MIE industrial engineering students: Industrial Engineering Design Award (Endowed $50,000) The Peri Family Industrial Engineering Design Award…
For several years, health-care teams at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto focused on speeding up turnaround times in operating rooms to avoid having to postpone surgeries at the end of a shift. But there were still days that the staff…
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