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The Developing World Healthcare Technology Laboratory (DHTLab) at Duke University recently developed the first evidence-based approach to training technicians to repair and maintain medical equipment in resource-poor settings, the BTA program. In this paper we describe a matched-pair study of hospitals with and without a BTA trained technician in Rwanda. Hospitals without a BTA trained technician...
The Developing World Healthcare Technology Laboratory (DHTLab) at Duke University has developed a comprehensive, open-source biomedical equipment technician's (BMET) library. In this work we experimented with making the DHTLab BMET library and medical equipment manuals available via electronic reader (e-reader). In this paper we describe an early deployment of e-readers to Haiti. The results were...
The developing world has a number of challenges regarding healthcare, such as insufficient training and funding to properly care for patients. One problem involves neonates that are born with Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS), which is a lack of surfactant in the lungs. RDS is typically treated using a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Device (CPAP) that prevents the lungs of the neonate from...
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