Saul Flores

1 month ago | medicine.yale.edu | Saul Flores

Women using hormonal birth control can experience a variety of side effects, including weight gain, irregular bleeding, mood swings, acne, headaches, cramping, and even contraceptive failures leading to unintended pregnancies, in rare cases. Because everyone reacts differently to different forms of hormonal birth control, it can be difficult to determine which method will work best for an individual.

Nov 28, 2024 | dx.doi.org | Rohit Loomba |Enrique Villarreal |Juan Farias |Saul Flores

Parallel circulation represents a unique circulatory physiology in which the systemic saturation is dependent on a weighted average of the systemic and pulmonary venous saturations. The weights for this average depend on the relative proportion of blood flow going to the pulmonary and systemic circulations. This ratio of pulmonary and systemic blood flow is further dependent on the relative resistances in these two beds.

Nov 20, 2024 | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Jennifer Benjamin |Saul Flores |Parag Jain |Shelley Kumar

BACKGROUND: The pandemic poses challenges for in-person procedural skills training. We developed a virtual module for teaching hands-on tracheostomy skills. OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate a virtual module prototype grounded in deliberate practice using tracheostomy change as an example. METHODS: After identifying desirable features of a virtual module by surveying stakeholders, we designed a prototype using VoiceThread, a multimedia-based collaborative learning platform.

Nov 18, 2024 | medicine.yale.edu | Saul Flores

“Garbage in; garbage out,” is a well-known saying in AI. And this concept speaks volumes on how AI bias can breach clinical decision-making, Yale medical AI experts say. “Bias in; bias out. The same idea absolutely applies,” says John Onofrey, PhD, assistant professor of radiology & biomedical imaging and of urology.

Oct 25, 2024 | dx.doi.org | Rohit Loomba |Saul Flores |Juan Farias |Enrique Villarreal

Monitoring of a venous saturation allows for the ability to identify inadequacy of systemic oxygen delivery and the increasing probability of morbidity and mortality in humans. Reference Ranucci, Isgro and Carlucci1–Reference Law, Benscoter and Borasino7 As venous saturation is one of the few components of the Fick equation for cardiac output, this should not be of surprise. However, monitoring a venous saturation can be invasive and costly and is thus not routinely done.