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As an example of what biomedical engineering can contribute to the solution of health problems that afflict the vulnerable populations, this chapter describes two clinical problems addressed in biomedical engineering developed at two public hospitals in Mexico City. The first project was developed at the National Institute of Perinatology, a tertiary-care hospital and, it is related to the vulnerable group of poor women with high-risk pregnancies. It is about the design and construction of a prototype of a perfusion system for cotyledon of human placenta, in order to study some drugs for the intensive care of the obstetric patient, such as antihypertensives and their possible affection to the fetus in utero. The second project is related to the vulnerable group of children in poverty, who have cleft lip and/or palate and come to the Pediatric Hospital of Tacubaya, a second-care public hospital, to be taken care of. The objective of this work was to develop a computational tool that would assist the physician in the assessment and prognosis of the rehabilitation of patients presenting with these congenital malformations.
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Ortiz-Pedroza, M.R., Ortiz-Posadas, M.R. (2022). Engineering Special Medical Devices for Vulnerable Groups. In: Simini, F., Bertemes-Filho, P. (eds) Medicine-Based Informatics and Engineering. Lecture Notes in Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87845-0_7
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