Jan Patrick Kopetz

• Doctor of Engineering
• Research Assistant at University of Lübeck

Critical care patients in intensive care units often require mechanical ventilation. This intervention usually involves a loss of the patient’s verbal communication for the duration of the ventilation. The weaning process from ventilation, in particular, causes increased stress. This significantly challenges patients and all others involved in the...

Schwangere werden regelmäßig im präferierten Kreißsaal zur Geburt abgewiesen. Ursachen dafür stellen personelle und räumliche Engpässe in der Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie dar. Für das Abweisungsmanagement gibt es kein standardisiertes Vorgehen zum Vermitteln eines alternativen Kreißsaals. Da in Deutschland bisher keine Studien zu der Thematik dur...

Intensive care patients that are weaned from mechanical ventilation are facing substantial communication problems due to their limited ability to communicate verbally. This can lead to stress, misunderstandings, prolonged healing processes and a delirium. This paper describes the development of an application supporting the management of pain which...

Ventilated intensive care patients represent a sizable group in the intensive care unit that requires special attention. Although intensive care units are staffed with more nurses per patient than regular wards, the situation is often precarious. A situation that has become more acute during the COVID-19 pandemic. Weaning from mechanical ventilatio...

Today's Augmented Reality (AR) technology allows users to explore the real world enriched with digital artifacts, learn from it, or shape it (i.e., creating your own virtual objects). To properly use virtual objects in AR space, users must be able to manipulate them (i.e., rotate or move them). The prerequisite for manipulation is an intuitive inte...

An ageing society creates an increasing need for a well-trained nursing staff. In particular, physically demanding motion sequences must be learned correctly to preserve carers’ long-term health. During training, support in practical skills training must also leave the carers’ hands free to allow them to perform the motion sequences unencumbered. W...

Rufsystem 4.0 in der Intensivpflege – Brücke zwischen Patienten und Pflegenden Klassische Patientenrufsysteme sind elektronische Meldesysteme, die – beispielsweise in Krankenhäusern – genutzt werden, um Pflegenden über optische Signale Anliegen von Patientinnen und Patienten aufzuzeigen. Dies erfordert, dass Pflegende nach Wahrnehmung des Rufes ak...

Intensive care patients that are weaned from mechanical ventilation are facing substantial physical and psychical stress. Due to the breathing tube, they often cannot voice their basic needs adequately. Possible consequences, amongst other complications, are a prolonged healing process and a delirium. To address this issue and support patient commu...

The awakening process of artificially respirated patients on intensive care units from unconsciousness is called weaning. In this phase, patients experience difficulties to communicate their basic needs or to meaningfully contact staff and relatives. This means psychological distress for all affected persons - patients themselves, medical/nursing s...

Due to the obstruction of verbal communication, mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units often cannot impart their basic needs. Possible consequences are a prolonged healing process, delirium, and other complications. To overcome the communication barrier, we provide a specialized solution to support communication in intensive care....

In nursing care, correct execution of interventions is crucial, for example, when assisting a patient moving from the bed to a wheelchair. Such interventions promote both the patients' well-being and the nurses' long-term health. Thus, learning the correct techniques forms an important part of skills training in undergraduate nursing education. How...

Weaning from the mechanical ventilation poses substantial physical and psychical stress to the patients which is intensified by the obstruction of verbal communication. Hence, during the weaning phase, ICU patients often cannot impart their basic needs adequately. A prolonged healing process, delirium, and complications are possible consequences. T...

Motivation/Problemstellung: Das Projekt ACTIVATE hat zum Ziel, ein soziotechnisches Unterstützungssystem zu entwickeln, das die Kommunikation, Reorientierung und Umweltkontrolle von schwerstkranken Menschen in Intensivstationen in der Phase der Entwöhnung vom Beatmungsgerät (Weaning) fördert. Im Rahmen der initialen Nutzungs- und Aufgabenanalyse wu...

Zusammenfassung Aufgrund des demografischen Wandels und der damit verbunden Alterung der Gesellschaft gewinnt die Qualifizierung und Kompetenzentwicklung in Pflegeberufen zunehmend an Bedeutung. Insbesondere bei physisch belastenden Tätigkeiten ist es wichtig, dass Pflegekräfte durch adäquate Haltung während der Ausführung ihre Beanspruchung minimi...