This week, the ORI team returned to their offices in the Executive Business Centre for the first time in five months. The team have been working remotely since 23rd March, when the UK government recommended working from home where possible to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Elective surgeries, such as hip and knee replacements, were… Read more » about ORI team return to campus
Professor Ian Swain has published the findings of a home-testing protocol, looking at the effectiveness of face masks in preventing the spread of respiratory infections such as COVID-19. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been much debate in the media on whether masks should be worn to stop the spread of the… Read more » about Prof Swain publishes article on the effectiveness of face masks for reducing the spread of COVID-19
We had good news this week as another paper from the Orthopaedic Research Institute was accepted for publication in Microvascular Research Journal. The effect of calf neuromuscular electrical stimulation and intermittent pneumatic compression on thigh microcirculation article was Shay Bahadori’s first publication as a first author in collaboration with Tikki Immins and Tom Wainwright. The article… Read more » about Comparison of NMES and IPC device on Enhancing Microcirculatory blood flow accepted for publication
Tom Wainwright’s paper written in collaboration with Tikki Immins and Rob Middleton, titled “Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) and its applicability for major spine surgery” was accepted for publication in March 2016 in Best Practice & Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology. Tom is an expert in Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) pathways and has published widely. He is… Read more » about Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) and its applicability for major spine surgery
“A Review of Virtual Reality Based Training Simulators for Orthopaedic Surgery” was accepted for publication in November 2015 by Medical Engineering & Physics. It was completed by Prof Rob Middleton and Prof Tom Wainwright in collaboration with Dr Neil Vaughan and Dr Venkitesh Dubey from the Faculty of Science of Technology, and follows successful presentations1 2 by the… Read more » about A Review of Virtual Reality Based Training Simulators for Orthopaedic Surgery
It was good news this week as 3 papers from the Orthopaedic Research Institute were accepted for publication. The articles demonstrate the diversity of research interests within ORI and also the collaborative nature of our work across the university. The first paper, accepted by Medical Engineering & Physics is a “A Review of Virtual Reality Based Training Simulators… Read more » about Three ORI papers accepted for publication this week
Tom Wainwright, Associate Professor in Orthopaedics and Deputy Head of ORI, was invited to speak at the CoPMRE Twelfth Annual Symposium – Human Factors: reducing risk in healthcare on the 7th October 2015. The conference was a sell out and attracted a mixture of primary and secondary care doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, Trusts board members and… Read more » about Reliable design for safety and quality improvement
