Global Clinical Engineering Journal

📢 Call for Papers | Special Issue: Improving Labor Monitoring Through Customization of WHO Labor Care Guide in Ugandan Facilities

🚼 Safe childbirth remains a major challenge in low-resource settings, where inconsistent monitoring, delayed interventions, and fragmented documentation continue to impact maternal and neonatal outcomes.

➡️ This Special Issue focuses on enhancing the WHO Labor Care Guide through AI, IoT, and digital health innovations, enabling real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and context-adapted clinical workflows in resource-constrained environments.

💡 We welcome research on:
- AI-driven labor monitoring and decision support
- IoT-enabled maternal and fetal monitoring systems
- Mobile health tools for customized labor workflows
- Blockchain and EHR integration for secure data sharing
- Remote monitoring and clinical decision dashboards and more

👥 Guest Editors:
- Wilson Tumuhimbise, PhD (Researcher, Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda)
- Teddy Ebimene Kurokeyi (Bayelsa Medical University, Bayelsa State, Nigeria)
- Tusar Kanti Dash (Electronics & Communication Engineering, C. V. Raman Global University, Bidyanagar, Mahura, Janla Bhubaneswar, India)

📅 Submission Deadline: 30 July 2026

🧷 For more information, please visit: https://globalce.org/index.php/GlobalCE/LaborMonitoring

📢 Vol 8 Issue 1 | Artificial Intelligence and the Future in Knee Surgery: Challenges and Opportunities for Personalized Care

🤖 AI is rapidly reshaping orthopaedics—moving from concept to clinical workflow across diagnosis, surgical planning, and robotic-assisted interventions. This new paper explores how machine learning and deep learning are being applied in knee osteoarthritis and knee arthroplasty, and what this means for the future of personalized surgical care.

👨‍⚕️ Authors:
- Luca Andriollo (Fondazione Poliambulanza Hospital, Brescia, Italy)
- Corrado Ciatti (Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital / University of Parma, Italy)
- Stefano Marco Paolo Rossi (Fondazione Poliambulanza Hospital, Italy)
- Francesco Benazzo (Fondazione Poliambulanza Hospital / IUSS, Pavia, Italy)

✏️ Key themes covered include:
- AI-enabled preoperative planning and surgical navigation
- Integration of robotics in knee arthroplasty
- Data-driven personalization of treatment pathways
- Ethical, regulatory, and privacy challenges in clinical deployment
- The enduring importance of clinical judgment and human empathy in AI-supported care

While AI demonstrates strong potential to improve precision and reduce variability in surgical outcomes, the authors also highlight a critical point: safe and effective adoption depends on responsible integration, not replacement of clinical expertise.

📑 Read full manuscript:
https://globalce.org/index.php/GlobalCE/article/view/230

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https://globalce.org/index.php/GlobalCE/about/submissions

👶 GCEJ Online First | Newly Available
𝑽𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒚 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒂

🆕 The Global Clinical Engineering Journal (GCEJ) is pleased to share a newly released Online First article, available ahead of its formal issue publication, examining variations in the clinical use of phototherapy (PT) for neonatal jaundice across selected hospitals in Ghana.

✍ Authors
- David Ebo Anderson from Koforidua Technical University & University of Ghana, Ghana
- Van Wellington Elloh from Koforidua Technical University, Ghana
- Srinivasan Shankar Balapangu from University of Ghana, Ghana
- Isaac Arhin from Koforidua Technical University, Ghana
- Daniel Abbeyqyuaye from Koforidua Technical University, Ghana
- Seyram Perpetual from Koforidua Technical University, Ghana
- Mon Anderson from University of Ghana, Ghana

🔎 Key Highlights
• Neonatal jaundice remains a major neonatal health challenge and may lead to Kernicterus if untreated
• Phototherapy is the gold-standard treatment for both term and preterm infants
• Evaluates real-world phototherapy practice across selected hospitals in Ghana
• Strong awareness among healthcare professionals regarding:
– Bilirubin testing prior to treatment
– Calibration and maintenance of phototherapy devices
– Standard clinical treatment protocols
• Highlights the need for greater standardization of phototherapy practice
• Recommends routine device performance assessment and adherence to clinical standards

This study reinforces the importance of clinical engineering, device quality assurance, and standardized care protocols in improving neonatal outcomes and patient safety, particularly in resource-limited healthcare settings.

📖 Available now as Online First in GCEJ: https://globalce.org/index.php/GlobalCE/article/view/238

📌 Submit your paper: https://globalce.org/index.php/GlobalCE/about/submissions

🧠 GCEJ Online First | Newly Available for Vol. 8 Issue 1
𝑭𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑼𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒍 𝑳𝒐𝒐𝒑 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑫𝒚𝒔𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒂 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒔: 𝑬𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒄𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒔𝒊-𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒚

The Global Clinical Engineering Journal (GCEJ) is pleased to share a newly released Online First article, available ahead of its formal issue publication, investigating the effectiveness of a novel loop device in improving tongue mobility and swallowing function in stroke survivors with dysphagia.

✍ Authors:
Mayank Shukla and Deeksha Vishwakarma
Department of Physiotherapy, Sharda School of Allied Health Sciences, Sharda University, India.

🔎 Key Highlights:
• Dysphagia in stroke survivors is commonly caused by reduced motor control and delayed swallowing reflex
• Limited technical tools exist for tongue rehabilitation in dysphagia management
• Quasi-randomized clinical study comparing loop device vs conventional tongue therapy
• Both intervention groups demonstrated significant improvement in:
– Tongue length and protrusion (TLCM)
– Swallowing difficulty (EAT-10)
– Quality of life (MDADI)
• No statistically significant difference between loop device and traditional therapy outcomes
• Loop device provided a hygienic, clinically practical, and patient-preferred alternative to manual stretching
This study highlights the potential of simple, clinically adaptable rehabilitation devices in improving functional recovery and patient comfort in post-stroke dysphagia management.

📖 Read the full manuscript: https://globalce.org/index.php/GlobalCE/article/view/268

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