“The surgical treatment of spinal epidural metastasis is evolving. To be a surgical candidate, a patient should have a life expectancy of at least 3 months. Estimation of survival by experienced specialists has proven to be unreliable.” (Bartels et al, 2007; Bartels et al, 2011). Bartels et al have published data underlying a web-based decision support system on the…Continue Reading…
Since today, SLIC – the app that offers dedicated decision-support for subaxial cervical spine injury and its surgical treatment – is available in the Android Market besides the App Store. It has been tested on Android 2.x and may also work on Android tablets, but I cannot promise that. This Android version has been compiled…Continue Reading…
SLIC 2 is now available in the App Store, both for iPhone and iPad! It contains decision support for sub axial cervical spine injury and its surgical treatment, as demonstrated in previous posts. Click the image to download, or upgrade your existing SLIC installation. The app is free or charge. Android version is on its…Continue Reading…
And here is number 5 out of 5 of the surgical guidelines of the Brain Trauma Foundation: depressed cranial fractures. In my earlier posts you read about on epidural hematoma, acute subdural hematoma, traumatic parenchymal lesions, and posterior fossa mass lesions. Before implementing the final part I needed to fix a technical problem. I ended up creating a workaround…Continue Reading…
Waiting for review… that’s the official status of SLIC 2 in the App Store now. Everything has been done and tested successfully, including on iOS 5, and both iPhone and iPad. I expect the app to be available for download beginning next week… Here’s the icon you will see (it is a little darker than…Continue Reading…
The new version of SLIC is almost ready! I made up my mind on the issues I described in my previous post… Regarding the disclaimer: I added it to the “Surgery” menu in what I consider to be the least intrusive way of letting you know all you need to know. Take a look: The…Continue Reading…
Continued working on SLIC 2 today, with success! Bypassed the problem I described in my previous post, and implemented all five flowcharts now. Moreover, the app has now been tested and is running successfully on both iPhone and iPad (as a universal binary). This is new compared to the current version of SLIC, which does…Continue Reading…
After earlier screenshots on iPhone and iPad, now it is time for a little demonstration of NeuroMind 2 running on Android. Although it runs fine in “Development” mode, there is an issue I do not understand yet when a decision support item is selected from the menu: The emulator is running OS version 2.3.3 –…Continue Reading…
Chapter 4 out of 5: posterior fossa mass lesions! After implementing the Brain Trauma Foundation surgical guidelines on epidural hematoma, acute subdural hematoma, and traumatic parenchymal lesions, now it is time for posterior fossa mass lesions. As usual, I take my “three-step-approach”: Step 1: the original text-version of the guideline’s recommendations Step 2: create a…Continue Reading…
Part 3 of the BTF Surgical Guidelines: traumatic parenchymal lesions. By now you will be familiar with the three steps I also used for the decision support systems on epidural hematoma and acute subdural hematoma: Step 1: the original text-version of the guideline’s recommendations Step 2: create a flowchart Step 3: convert into an app! As…Continue Reading…