Technology has provided many benefits to the medial field. We are able to save more lives than ever before.
More advancements are happening constantly to help heal patients. Many areas in the medical arena that it has helped are as follows: testing, treatment, early detection, surgery, and many more. Early detection has been influenced by technology with the use of x-rays, MRI's and Cat Scans. Doctors are able to have an "inside" look at your body and what diseases or conditions
may be hiding within the body.
Listed here are just a few new technologies that are helping people today.
More advancements are happening constantly to help heal patients. Many areas in the medical arena that it has helped are as follows: testing, treatment, early detection, surgery, and many more. Early detection has been influenced by technology with the use of x-rays, MRI's and Cat Scans. Doctors are able to have an "inside" look at your body and what diseases or conditions
may be hiding within the body.
Listed here are just a few new technologies that are helping people today.
The future is here with a new experimental process that sprays the victim's skin cells onto burns to heal them in days instead of months.
It's called a "skin cell gun" by Jorg C. Gerlach of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. His team has been working on the process for a long time and just now has entered the experimental phase using real human burn victims. First, the scientists harvest healthy skin cells from unharmed portions of the victim's bodies and isolate the stem cells in order to put them in a water solution. Gerlach's gun then sprays those cells directly onto the burn wound as if painting a house. The process of taking the sample, isolating the cells and then spraying them on the wound takes only 1.5 hours, and results in drastically quickening the healing process for burn victims.
It's called a "skin cell gun" by Jorg C. Gerlach of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. His team has been working on the process for a long time and just now has entered the experimental phase using real human burn victims. First, the scientists harvest healthy skin cells from unharmed portions of the victim's bodies and isolate the stem cells in order to put them in a water solution. Gerlach's gun then sprays those cells directly onto the burn wound as if painting a house. The process of taking the sample, isolating the cells and then spraying them on the wound takes only 1.5 hours, and results in drastically quickening the healing process for burn victims.
From the University of Pittsburgh’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Doctor Jörg Gerlach has created a fast and effective new alternative to skin grafts: the skin gun.
It's called a "skin cell gun" by Jorg C. Gerlach of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Gerlach and his team of researchers and scientists have been working on this project for a long time and have recently been able to enter the experimental phase where they are able to use human burn victims. First they take a sample of the burn victims own skin and isolate stem cells. They take those cells and add them to a water solution. They are then able to use the “gun” that they have created to “paint” the burn wound much like painting a house. The whole process takes only 1.5 hours from gathering the skin sample to spraying the wound. The result is a drastically reduced healing process for the burn victim.
It's called a "skin cell gun" by Jorg C. Gerlach of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Gerlach and his team of researchers and scientists have been working on this project for a long time and have recently been able to enter the experimental phase where they are able to use human burn victims. First they take a sample of the burn victims own skin and isolate stem cells. They take those cells and add them to a water solution. They are then able to use the “gun” that they have created to “paint” the burn wound much like painting a house. The whole process takes only 1.5 hours from gathering the skin sample to spraying the wound. The result is a drastically reduced healing process for the burn victim.
Lightweight Exoskeleton Gives Paraplegics New Legs
They are called eLEGS and they were developed at Berkley Bionics. eLEGS are an exoskeleton consisting of a robotic frame controlled through crutches that contain sensors. These sensors are used to mimic walking. The eLEGS run off a battery that can last for a full day before the user would need to recharge it. Exoskeletons are wearable, artificially intelligent bionic devices that have primarily been developed for military usage to enhance soldiers’strength and endurance in the battlefield. Doctors have been studying exoskeleton applications to assist the physically disabled. The possibilites of exoskeletons in the health field go beyond giving paraplegics robotic legs. They could also to learn how to walk on their own again. Currently, rehabilitation centers use much larger, stationary and extremely expensive devices to assist with temporary walking.
Computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis received a $100,000 grant from Microsoft and used it to merge a USB-based ultrasound probe with new Smartphone technology. The result is a hand-sized ultrasound machine that allows doctors in remote locations to image a person’s kidneys, liver, bladder, eyes, veins and arteries in order to detect any problems. This could be a significant breakthrough for developing nations, where over 70 percent of people have no access to needed medical equipment such as MRI scans or CT scanners.
According to William D. Richard, Ph.D., WUSTL associate professor of computer science, and David Zar, research associate in computer science and engineering, this technology could become the essential computer of the developing world. They believe 21st century medicine is defined by medical imaging, and integrating their probe-Smartphone for medical applications in developing countries could drastically change medicine and global computer-use on a grand scale.
According to William D. Richard, Ph.D., WUSTL associate professor of computer science, and David Zar, research associate in computer science and engineering, this technology could become the essential computer of the developing world. They believe 21st century medicine is defined by medical imaging, and integrating their probe-Smartphone for medical applications in developing countries could drastically change medicine and global computer-use on a grand scale.