• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.215-220
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• 2017

Spiritual care is at the center of hospice and palliative care. Patients facing serious and life-threatening illness have important needs in regard to faith, hope, and existential concerns. The purpose of this article is to review the key aspects of this care, including the definitions of spirituality, spiritual assessment, and spiritual care interventions. A review of the current literature was conducted to identify content related to spiritual care in hospice and palliative care. A growing body of evidence supports the importance of spiritual care as a key domain of quality palliative care. The literature supports the importance of spiritual assessment as a key aspect of comprehensive patient and family assessment. Spirituality encompasses religious concerns as well as other existential issues. Future research and clinical practice should test models of best support to provide spiritual care.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.203-204
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• 2015

본 논문은 척추 건강관리기의 구동을 위한 가변형 전원 공급장치에 관한 논문이다. 본 시스템은 의료용 및 척추 마사지를 위한 장비로서 인체에 접촉하는 경우가 많고 높은 안전성을 요구하기 때문에 안정적인 전원 공급이 필요한 시스템이다. 본 시스템을 구동하기 위해서 100W의 전원이 필요하여 비교적 간단하고 절연타입의 Forward Type의 토폴로지를 적용하여 시스템에서 요구하는 전원을 공급하도록 회로를 설계 하였으며, 이를 시스템에 적용하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.606-623
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• 2004

Emergency medical service pertains highly to the public service sector which has to be provided equally in a society and evenly in a spatial dimension by the government. However, emergency medical centers in Korea are inequally distributed in a space and also human capital, facility, and equipment for emergency medical centers show clear disparity among regions. This research analyzed the spatial balance of the demand supply level for emergency medical service in Seoul by constructing the potential demand surface map and supply surface map for this service. The surface map of demand-supply balance for emergency medical service was constructed by GIS based map algebra algorism. The results by this analysis very clearly reveal the spatial disparity of emergency medical service. The places where are over-represented by demand level compared to their supply level are estimated to require an additional establishment of emergency medical centers in the near future. While, the places where are over-represented by supply level compared to their potential demand for emergency medical services indicate the possibility of problems in the management of emergency medical centers because of a surplus in the supply of emergency medical services. The results of this research can be utilized in providing valuable information for the adequate provision of emergency medical centers and for the estimation of range on the service area of emergency medical services.

• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.149-176
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• 2022

South Korean law strictly prohibits engagement in medical activities by non-medical practitioners. In the country, tattooing is classified as a medical practice, and non-medical practitioners who engage in it are penalized because they are unauthorized to carry out this procedure. In reality, however, people rarely seek tattooing services from medical personnel. Arguing that their freedom of job selection is violated, non-medical personnel who make a living as tattoo artists reject the characterization of the procedure as a form of medical treatment and demand the decriminalization of tattooing by non-medical practitioners. Nevertheless, tattooing can cause health- and hygiene-related dangers when it is not performed by medical professionals because it involves penetration into the skin using needles. Hence, stringent management is necessary for infection prevention. The gap between reality and the law gives rise to the need for proactive thinking about the institutionalization of tattoo practice by non-medical personnel. Policymakers should reflect on the fact that only minimal tattooing services are currently performed by medical staff while also accounting for health and safety. On this basis, this study examined tattoo-related legislation in South Korea to determine whether the procedure corresponds to medical practice and identify ways to solve problems that occur from the perspective of health care. As a response that promotes safety and reflects reality, this research proposed a three-phase approach.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.38-46
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• 2017

Recently, various types of disasters have been occurring all over the world, and the importance of disaster management system to minimize damage caused by disasters is emerging. In Korea, we have made many policy improvements related to disaster safety, such as the establishment of the National Security Service and the announcement of the National Safety Management Plan and made a lot of effort to secure facilities such as disaster relief hospitals after the Mauna Ocean Resort Gymnasium Collapse and the Sewol-ho incident, However, compared to advanced countries such as the US, Europe, and Japan, there is a shortage of emergency medical center per population, and disaster management systems have not been implemented efficiently due to lack of coordination among various agencies. The purpose of this study is to propose the efficient construction and systematic management of emergency medical facilities required for disaster situations. For this purpose, it is necessary to identify the current status of domestic emergency medical facilities compared to developed countries.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.270-279
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• 2003

현대산업의 고도화 추세에 따라 반도체를 비롯한 의료 및 식품위생기기 산업분야에 사용되는 부품의 고정도가 요구되면서 기존에 공구와 가공물이 직접 접촉하면서 절삭하는 가공방법으로는 절삭력에 의한 변형과 마찰열 등으로 인하여 고정도 가공의 실현에 어려움이 생기게 되었다. 그리고 의료 및 식품기기에 사용될 부품의 내면을 기존의 기계적 가공방법으로 가공할 경우 공작물 표면에 미소한 가공흔적이 남게되어 표면의 요철부분에 칩(chip)등의 불순물이 잔재할 우려가 있으며, 또한 요철 부분에 미생물이 번식할 경우 청정도가 떨어져 산업위생상의 문제점이 발생하게된다.(중략)

• Review of KIISC
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.33-37
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 최근 새롭게 제안된 건강/의료 복지 서비스인 u-라이프케어에서 생체정보의 계측의 중요성과 최신 연구 동향을 주요 만성 성인질환인 당뇨병을 대상으로 분석하였다. 당뇨병의 정확한 진단과 효율적 관리에 있어서 중요한 생체 정보인 혈당 및 당화혈색소 비율의 의미를 분석하고 이를 계측하기 위한 생체계측 시스템의 구성과 특징을 살펴보았다. 특히, u-라이프케어를 위한 생체계측용 센서의 요구 특성과 이를 만족시키기 위한 최신 연구동향을 분석함으로써 향후 도래할 신개념의 의료/복지 서비스 시스템에서 생체정보와 이를 위한 생체계측시스템에 대한 이해를 개관하였다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.21-27
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• 2011

본고에서는 IT 기술의 급속한 발전과 보급에 힘입어 최근 많은 관심을 끌고 있는 미래의 의료형태인 유헬스케어에 필요한 IT융합 헬스케어기술을 소개하였다. IT융합 헬스케어기술이 성공적으로 실시되면 맞춤형 헬스케어 서비스와 웰빙을 필요로 하는 많은 이용자의 요구에 의해서 헬스케어는 환자 중심의 질병 및 증상을 완화하고, 치료하는 개념에서 점차 일반인의 건강을 증진하고 질병을 예방하는 개념으로 변화 되고 있다. 이를 위해서는 IT 기술과 의료서비스를 융합하여 언제 어디서나 예방, 진료, 치료 그리고 사후관리를 받을 수 있는 유헬스케어 서비스가 제공될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.27-34
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• 1997

3-D image modeling is in high demand for automated visual inspection and non-destructive testing. It also can be useful in biomedical research, medical therapy, surgery planning, and simulation of critical surgery (i.e. cranio-facial). Image processing and image analysis are used to enhance and classify medical volumetric data. Analyzing medical volumetric data is very difficult In this paper, we propose a new image modeling method based on tetrahedrization to improve the visualization of three-dimensional medical volumetric data. In this method, the trivariate piecewise linear interpolation is applied through the constructed tetrahedral domain. Also, visualization methods including iso-surface, color contouring, and slicing are discussed. This method can be useful to the correct and speedy analysis of medical volumetric data, because it doesn't have the ambiguity problem of Marching Cubes algorithm and achieves the data reduction. We expect to compensate the degradation of an accuracy by using an adaptive sub-division of tetrahedrization based on least squares fitting.

• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.3-23
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• 2021

Telemedicine is a field of medicine in which medicine doctors who are in remote distance can treat the patients using audio, video devices which can help the diagnosis. In medicine, even the face-to-face diagnosis and treatment is the traditional way, the telemedicine could provide the convenient way for the patients in long distance, disabled or anyone who want to be stay ones' home. But telemedicine has the task to maintain the quality of medical cares compare with the traditional medicine. Among the several types of telemedicine, the specific type telemedicine in which the medicine doctors examine, diagnosis and do the prescription to the remotely distanced patients could be defined tele-prescription. Under The Medical Service act, it is unclear that teleprescription could be allowed. The Medical Service Act has introduced the specific clause for the prescription. That clause includes the duty of patients who have to receive the prescriptions directly from medical doctors. Under this clause, the constitutional court had decided the tele-prescription was illegal, but the supreme court has been decided tele-prescription could be legalized under the certain circumstances. But the other supreme court decided the tele-prescription was illegal under the article 34 of presenting Medical Service Act. So to understand the interpretations of Supreme court and Constitutional court decisions for the cases of prescription via telephone, we need to understand the history and presented reasons for the revision of prescription clause and also need to understand the other related clauses in the same act. In conclusion, To consider the values of telemedicine should be the level with the ordinary treatments, It is reasonable to interpret that the presenting Medical Service Act only legalize the telemedicine between doctor to doctor and which is regulated by the telemedicine clause.