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- Evaluation of emergency first response’s competency in undergraduate college students: Enhancing sustainable medical education in the community for work occupational safety(MDPI, 2021-07-23) Gonzalez Peña, Omar Israel; Dieck Assad, Graciano; Rodríguez Delgado, José Manuel; GONZALEZ PENA, OMAR ISRAEL; 162547; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de MonterreyWorldwide, people’s quality of health has been decreasing due to bad eating habits that have generated an increase in diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, overweight, as well as an increase in hours of the daily workday and stress. This situation can generate sudden illness and work accidents where the need to have knowledge in emergency first response (EFR) is necessary for all. Unfortunately, workshops and courses to certify EFR individuals are usually taught only to healthcare professionals. Therefore, to address this need a EFR project has been developed at the Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEC) which consists of a multidisciplinary challenge to train, certify, and evaluate students’ competency as “emergency first responders” in medical emergencies and healthcare awareness. This EFR project has been performed for one week, every year since 2015, and constitutes a joint venture among academic departments, faculty, and industrial/government institutions, which work together in multidisciplinary projects, providing a source of innovative proposals. The EFR project at TEC has provided instruction and certification for 966 students between 2015 to 2019 and this study has analyzed results considering a sample size of 197 participants. The combination of exam evaluation, medical emergency skills verification, and project proposal results indicate that most students reach skill levels between 2 and 3 in EFR competency after successfully completing the program, regardless of their year of study or the undergraduate program they are enrolled on. This evaluation emphasizes the compromise of the institution and its students in preparation for new living under sanitary conditions for pandemic conditions such as COVID-19.
- Fabrication of an Active PCB-MEMS Microfluidic Chip for CHO Cells Characterization by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy(The Electrochemical Society, 2021-06-04) Gonzalez Peña, Omar Israel; Gordillo, José Luis; Contreras Saenz, Michael; Rodríguez Delgado, José Manuel; Camacho León, Sergio; Gaviria Pastore, Giancarlo; GONZALEZ PENA, OMAR ISRAEL; 162547; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de MonterreyThis paper reports the use of laser ablation for the fabrication of a microfluidic device with integrated electrodes on a printed circuit board (PCB-MEMS). The fabricated novel device has flame retardant (FR)−4 resin as substrate, copper (Cu) as active material, and SU-8 polymer as a structural material. The resolution, repeatability, and simplicity achieved in this approach, along with the low cost of the involved materials and methods, enable an affordable micromachining technique with a rapid fabrication-test cycle to develop active microfluidic systems on a chip. Furthermore, an Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) analysis was performed at different Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell concentrations (105 to 108 cfu ml−1) to validate device assembly and functionality. The electrical properties of the system were characterized and discussed through a proposed equivalent circuit model comprising five passive elements. The model describes ohmic and non-ideal capacitive behavior of the cytoplasm and membrane of the CHO cells as well as the suspending medium and electrical connections of the device. Likewise, two characteristic times associated with relaxation processes caused by a change in the path of charge transport through the cells are determined.
- Electrochemical Instrumentation of an Embedded Potentiostat System (EPS) for a Programmable-System-On-a-Chip(MDPI, 2018-12-18) Gonzalez Peña, Omar Israel; Muñoz Martínez, Adrián Iván; Colomer Farrarons, Jordi; Rodríguez Delgado, José Manuel; Ávila Ortega, Alfonso; Dieck Assad, Graciano; GONZALEZ PENA, OMAR ISRAEL; 162547; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de MonterreyUnder the main features required on portable devices in electrochemical instrumentation is to have a small size, low power consumption, economically affordable and precision in the measurements. This paper describes the development of a programmable Embedded Potentiostat System (EPS) capable of performing electrochemical sensing over system-on-a-chip platforms. Furthermore, the study explains a circuit design and develops some validation of the entire system. The hardware validation is performed by electrochemical experiments such as Double Step Chronoamperometry (DSC), Linear Sweep Voltammetry (LSV) and Cyclic Voltammetry (CV); moreover, a comparison of the experimental signals between a commercial potentiostat and the EPS was done by analysis of errors on the response signal. Results illustrate that the EPS is capable of handling currents in the range of absolute values of 86.44 to 3000 nA and having control voltages in the range of ±2 V. The device can support from 50 to 2000 samples per second. The EPS capabilities were compared with other compact potentiostats. The programmable EPS is an original approach which hugely reduces the hardware complexity and leads the way to create new applications for Point-of-Care or industrial developments with a reusable full electronics module.

