Biomedical Engineering Tools for Management for Patients with COVID-19

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Biomedical Engineering Tools for Management for Patients With COVID-19
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Contents
List of contributors
1 A review: novel coronavirus (COVID-19): an evidence-based approach
	1.1 Introduction
		1.1.1 History and origin
	1.2 Types
		1.2.1 Common types
		1.2.2 Coronaviruses can spread in the following ways
	1.3 COVID-19
		1.3.1 Common symptoms include
		1.3.2 Characteristics
	1.4 Coronavirus life cycle
		1.4.1 Steps
	1.5 Epidemiology
	1.6 Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
		1.6.1 Therapeutic options for the treatment of 2019-novel coronavirus
			1.6.1.1 Antiviral
				Nucleoside analog
				Neuraminidase inhibitors
			1.6.1.2 Host-directed therapies
			1.6.1.3 Immunomodulators
				Corticosteroids
				Interferon
			1.6.1.4 Other therapies
		1.6.2 Prevention
	1.7 Conclusions
	Consent for publication
	Availability of data and materials
	Ethical approval
	Declaration of conflicting interests
	Funding
	References
2 State-of-the-art equipment for rapid and accurate diagnosis of COVID-19
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Types of diagnosis techniques
		2.2.1 Viral RNA detection-based techniques
			2.2.1.1 Next-generation sequencing
				Advantages
				Limitations
			2.2.1.2 Real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)
				Advantages
				Limitations
			2.2.1.3 Reverse transcription-loop-mediated isothermal amplification
				Advantages
				Limitations
		2.2.2 Serology/immunology-based diagnostics
			2.2.2.1 Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
				Advantages
				Limitations
		2.2.3 Point-of-care diagnostics
			2.2.3.1 Chip-based biosensors for rapid diagnosis
			2.2.3.2 Paper-based biosensors for rapid diagnosis
		2.2.4 Clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats
			WARNING!!! DUMMY ENTRY
				Advantages
				Limitations
		2.2.5 Imaging-based techniques
			2.2.5.1 Chest X-ray
			2.2.5.2 Computed tomography
			2.2.5.3 Ultrasound
		2.2.6 Clinical data to predict progression
	2.3 Conclusion and further readings
	References
3 Radiotherapy challenges in COVID era
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Clinical, radiobiological, and therapeutic considerations in the decision of palliative whole brain irradiation in the ...
	3.3 New perspectives for hypofractionated radiotherapy in breast cancer—recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
	3.4 Prostate cancer radiotherapy in the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak
	3.5 Radiation therapy for locally advanced NSCLC during COVID-19 pandemic—challenges and risks beyond clinical guidelines
	References
	Further reading
4 In-person versus virtual activities: Assessing the usefulness and impact of simulated experiments, a case study
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Short overview of the virtual physics laboratory
	4.3 Analysis of answers
	4.4 Conclusions
	References
5 Coronavirus disease COVID-19 tracking the global outbreak. SEIR compartmental model applied to SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Romania
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Model overview and epidemic calculator
	5.3 Conclusions
	References
6 ROI extraction in CT lung images of COVID-19 using Fast Fuzzy C means clustering
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Materials and methods
		6.2.1 Fast Fuzzy C means clustering
	6.3 Result and discussion
		6.3.1 Evaluation of the quality of clustering algorithm
		6.3.2 Comparison of running time
		6.3.3 Inferences and future works
	6.4 Conclusion
	Acknowledgment
	References
7 Smart equipment to protect patients and people from COVID disease
	7.1 Introduction
		7.1.1 Background
	7.2 A review on waste management
		7.2.1 Working model of disposal of waste using smart equipment
		7.2.2 Case study on COVID-19 sample data to identify the percentage of data analysis
		7.2.3 Analysis made of the waste disposal
	7.3 Conclusion
	7.4 Future work
	References
8 The role of physical activities for patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 after convalescence period
	8.1 The COVID-19 illness and the beginning of the pandemic
	8.2 Practicing physical activities
	8.3 Effort parameters in physical activities
		8.3.1 The volume of effort
		8.3.2 The intensity of effort
		8.3.3 The duration of effort
		8.3.4 The frequency of effort
		8.3.5 The complexity of effort
	8.4 Physical activities at different age categories
	8.5 Life expectancy
	8.6 Design of physical activity programs
	8.7 The effects of diseases on the human body
	8.8 Healthy habits for a good quality of living
	8.9 Practicing physical exercises by using applications to monitor effort and recover the respiratory function
	References
9 Physiotherapeutic management for patients with Covid-19
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Physiotherapeutic management for patients with COVID-19
		9.2.1 The functional evaluation
		9.2.2 The objective and interventions specific to the physiotherapy program
		9.2.3 Methods and means used in the physiotherapy process
		9.2.4 Methodical indication for physiotherapeutic treatment
		9.2.5 Early mobilization of the patient with respiratory diseases
		9.2.6 Physiotherapy in the first 6 weeks after hospital discharge
		9.2.7 Physiotherapy after 6 weeks post hospital discharge
		9.2.8 Example of exercise program after hospital discharge
	References
10 Daily confirmed cases and deaths prediction of novel coronavirus in Asian continent Polynomial Neural Network
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 Data collection
	10.3 Polynomial Neural Network
	10.4 Result and discussion
	10.5 Conclusion
	References
11 Smart sensing systems for in-home health status and emotional well-being monitoring during COVID-19
	11.1 COVID-19 virus and the evolution of the pandemic
	11.2 In-home health smart sensing systems
	11.3 Telerehabilitation as a remotely solution during COVID-19 pandemic
	11.4 Conclusions
	References
12 Methods of prophylaxis and control for young people during COVID-19 period
	12.1 COVID-19 around the world
		12.1.1 Consequences of the quarantine period/lockdown
		12.1.2 Impact of the social and physical isolation
	12.2 Lockdown in Romania determined by COVID-19
		12.2.1 Influence of the lockdown upon youth/students
		12.2.2 Influence of the lockdown upon youth/students with disabilities
	12.3 Importance and the prophylactic role of physical exercises
	12.4 Nutrition and physical activities
	12.5 Physical exercises
		12.5.1 Modalities of doing physical exercises correlated to respiratory gymnastics
		12.5.2 Prophylactic role of respiratory gymnastics
	References
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