Significant applications of virtual reality for COVID-19 pandemic

Dadkhah

Eur J Clin Investigation

2020

Background: Today, numerous countries are fighting to protect themselves against the Covid-19 crisis, while the policymakers are confounded and empty handed in dealing with this chaotic circumstance. The infection and its impacts have made it difficult to make optimal and suitable decisions. New information technologies play significant roles in such critical situations to address and relieve stress during the coronavirus crisis. This article endeavours to recognize the challenges policymakers have typically experienced during pandemic diseases, including Covid-19, and, accordingly, new information technology capabilities to encounter with them. Material and methods: The current study utilizes the synthesis of findings of experts' opinions within the systematic review process as the research method to recognize the best available evidence drawn from text and opinion to offer practical guidance for policymakers. Results: The results illustrate that the challenges fall into two categories including; encountering the disease and reducing the results of the disease. Furthermore, Internet of things, cloud computing, machine learning and social networking play the most significant roles to address these challenges.

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“…1 Virtual/augmented reality can have positive impacts on the patients and even result in stress reduction. 26 Augmented reality has opened up opportunities for working together in a simulated environment. 17 It is also used to train individuals.…”

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confidence: 99%

Investigating the capabilities of information technologies to support policymaking in COVID‐19 crisis management; a systematic review and expert opinions

Dadkhah

Eur J Clin Investigation

2020

“…arti cial intelligence, virtual reality, internet of things (IoT), internet of medical things (IoMT), etc.) were applied in COVID-19 related clinical and practical research [23][24][25][26]. With the production of mass exponential data, knowledge graphs covering genes, pathways, and expression, etc.…”

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confidence: 99%

COVID Term: A Bilingual Terminology for COVID-19

Shen

Sun

et al. 2020

Preprint

Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) has shown its destructiveness with more than one million confirmed cases and dozens of thousands of death, which is highly contagious and still spreading globally. World-wide studies have been conducted aiming to understand the COVID-19 mechanism, transmission, clinical features, etc. A cross-language terminology of COVID-19 is essential for improving knowledge sharing and scientific discovery dissemination.Methods: We developed a bilingual terminology of COVID-19 named COVID Term with mapping Chinese and English terms. The terminology was constructed as follows: (1) Classification schema design; (2) Concept representation model building; (3) Term source selection and term extraction; (4) Hierarchical structure construction; (5) Quality control (6) Web service. We built open access for the terminology, providing search, browse, and download services. Results: The proposed COVID Term include 10 categories: disease, anatomic site, clinical manifestation, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, living organism, qualifiers, psychological assistance, medical equipment, instruments and materials, epidemic prevention and control, diagnosis and treatment technique respectively. In total, COVID Terms covered 464 concepts with 724 Chinese terms and 887 English terms. All terms are openly available online (COVID Term URL: http://covidterm.imicams.ac.cn ). Conclusions: COVID Term is a bilingual terminology focused on COVID-19, the epidemic pneumonia with a high risk of infection around the world. It will provide updated bilingual terms of the disease to help health providers and medical professionals retrieve and exchange information and knowledge in multiple languages. COVID Term was released in machine-readable formats (e.g., XML and JSON), which would contribute to the information retrieval, machine translation and advanced intelligent techniques application. Keywords: COVID-19, Terminology System, Bilingual, Medical Terminology

“…In contrast Rowen states that intravenous ozone gas therapy is exceptionally safe and has extensive personal use with a reported complication rate of only 0.7 per 100,000 treatments, most all of which he attributed to improper administration [13]. Singh, et al provided an excellent detailed review of the three different coronaviruses in the past two decades delineating their differences in viral dynamics and clinicalfeatures[14]. As these authors point out the treatment is primarily supportive therapy and they conclude that there is no anti-viral therapy proven to be effective against COVID-19[14].…”

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“…Singh, et al provided an excellent detailed review of the three different coronaviruses in the past two decades delineating their differences in viral dynamics and clinicalfeatures[14]. As these authors point out the treatment is primarily supportive therapy and they conclude that there is no anti-viral therapy proven to be effective against COVID-19[14]. A few small-scale studies have claimed benefi t with chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and other drugs including lopinavir/ritonavir, remdesivir, favipiravir, oseltamivir, ribavirin, interferon beta, tocilizumab and abidol[14].…”

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Novel therapy for COVID-19 does intravenous ozonated-saline affect blood and tissue oxygenation?

Ja¹,

Sa²,

Dd³

et al. 2020

J Gynecol Res Obstet

which adjuvant ozone therapy for COVID-19 could possibly improve outcomes: 1) Ozone is virucidal; 2) Ozone increases oxygenation of blood and tissues; 3) Ozone stimulates immune function via nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (NRF2); 4) Ozone inhibits infl ammatory mediators (interleukins, cytokines, and tumor necrosis factors; 5) Ozone activates endogenous antioxidant immune defenses; 6) Ozone inhibits viral replication; 7) Ozone inhibits micro thrombus formation; 8) Ozone up-regulates HO-1 in endothelial cells and; 9) Ozone stimulates the 2-3 diphosphoglycerate that shifts the oxygen