ASSESSING EFFECTIVENESS OF PASSIVE EXOSKELETONS AND TOOL SELECTION ON ERGONOMIC SAFETY IN MANHOLE COVER REMOVAL

Assessing Effectiveness of Passive Exoskeletons and Tool Selection on Ergonomic Safety in Manhole Cover Removal

Manual material handling, a common practice in various industries, often involves moving or lifting heavy objects, placing significant physical strain on workers, especially in the lower back.A prime example is manhole cover removal, which typically requires handling Canine - Clothing - Sweater heavy weights, potentially leading to lower back muscl

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Improving cause of death certification in the Philippines: implementation of an electronic verbal autopsy decision support tool (SmartVA auto-analyse) to aid physician diagnoses of out-of-facility deaths

Abstract Background The majority of deaths in the Philippines occur out-of-facility and require a medical certificate of cause of death by Municipal Health Officers (MHOs) for burial.MHOs lack a standardised certification process for out-of-facility deaths and when no medical records are available, certify a high proportion of ill-defined causes of

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Primary lipoblastic nerve sheath tumor in an inguinal lymph node mimicking metastatic tumor: a case report and literature review

Lipoblastic nerve sheath tumors of soft tissue are characterized as schwannoma tumors that exhibit adipose tissue and lipoblast-like cells with signet-ring morphology.They have been documented to arise in various anatomic locations, including the thigh, groin, shoulder, and retroperitoneum.However, to our knowledge, this Greeting tumor has not been

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