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During January 1, 2020-May 18, 2020, approximately 1.3 million cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and 83,000 COVID-19-associated deaths were reported in the United States (1). Understanding the demographic and clinical characteristics of decedents could inform medical and public health interventions focused on preventing COVID-19-associated mortality. This report describes decedents with laboratory-confirmed infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, using data from 1) the standardized CDC case-report form (case-based surveillance) (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/reporting-pui.html) and 2) supplementary data (supplemental surveillance), such as underlying medical conditions and location of death, obtained through collaboration between CDC and 16 public health jurisdictions (15 states and New York City).
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Infecções por Coronavirus/mortalidade , Disparidades nos Níveis de Saúde , Pneumonia Viral/mortalidade , Vigilância em Saúde Pública , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , COVID-19 , Doença Crônica , Infecções por Coronavirus/etnologia , Etnicidade/estatística & dados numéricos , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Pandemias , Pneumonia Viral/etnologia , Grupos Raciais/estatística & dados numéricos , Fatores de Risco , Estados Unidos/epidemiologia , Adulto JovemRESUMO
There have been a variety of efforts demonstrating the use of solid freeform fabrication (SFF) for prosthetic socket fabrication though there has been little effort in leveraging the strengths of the technology. SFF encompasses a class of technologies that can create three dimensional objects directly from a geometric database without specific tooling or human intervention. A real strength of SFF is that cost of fabrication is related to the volume of the part, not the part's complexity. For prosthetic socket fabrication this means that a sophisticated socket can be fabricated at essentially the same cost as a simple socket. Adding new features to a socket design becomes a function of software. The work at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) and University of Texas at Austin (UTA) has concentrated on developing advanced sockets that incorporate structural features to increase comfort as well as built in fixtures to accommodate industry standard hardware. Selective laser sintering (SLS) was chosen as the SFF technology to use for socket fabrication as it was capable of fabricating sockets using materials appropriate for prosthetics. This paper details the development of SLS prosthetic socket fabrication techniques at UTHSCSA/UTA over a six-year period.
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Membros Artificiais , Engenharia Biomédica/instrumentação , Engenharia Biomédica/métodos , Lasers , Desenho de Prótese/métodos , Tíbia/anatomia & histologia , Engenharia Biomédica/economia , Desenho Assistido por Computador , Estudos de Viabilidade , Humanos , Desenho de Prótese/instrumentação , Ajuste de Prótese , SoftwareRESUMO
Apresenta um resumo da nova sociedade que vem sendo criada através das mudanças tecnológicas, econômicas e sociais vividas na América do Norte, Europa e Japão e as causas destas mudanças. Discute o impacto destas mudanças nos negócios, focando principalmente os negócios nos Estados Unidos, e como estas mudanças afetam as finanças e o investimento, atentando aqui tanto para as questões políticas macroeconômicas quanto para as implicações específicas destas mudanças nos investimentos
