Awesome X-Ray Glasses Let Doctors See Through the Skin. A new medical invention could allow doctors and medical staff to view what lays behind your skin.Eyes-On Glasses System is a new super-smart device developed by Evena Medical, an imaging technology firm. We all know that when it comes to taking blood, the hardest part is finding a vein. Well, that burden is why the awesome X-Ray vision glasses were invented.
The glasses consist of a head-mounted device with a display which is equipped with vascular imaging technology. The company has managed to integrate technology into glasses, and a hands-free system projects overlays of digital content onto the user’s field of vision.
As it X-ray vision alone weren’t enough, the super glasses are also able to store the information in order to make the documentation of vein condition throughout the patient’s hospital stay more accessible. If that doesn’t make whomever is using these glasses feel like they have superpowers, then maybe the fact that the glasses an also interact with any electronic medical records.
Studies indicate that in nearly 40% of the cases, the first attempt to start an IV line fails, leading to the discomfort of the patient. That being said, the new device promises wonders! The amazing technology is actually the result of a combination between Evena’s multi-spectral 3D imaging technology with Epson’s Moverio smart glasses.
Eyes-On system is designed to automatically log all of the collected data from each procedure and stores it with the rest of the patient’s medical records. With the aid of Moverio’s Wi-Fi connectivity, everything that the nurse sees can easily be shared with doctors anywhere worldwide.
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Doctors in India have replaced a 12-year-old boy's damaged nose with a new one which was grown on his forehead. Arun Patel's nose was badly damaged and disfigured when he suffered from pneumonia as a baby. The infection damaged the cartilage of his nose, making it difficult for doctors to fix it. A similar operation was carried out in China in 2013 where a man who had damaged his nose in a traffic accident was given a new one.
Arun's parents took him to a doctor in their village in the central state of Madhya Pradesh when he suffered from pneumonia soon after his birth.
But the treatment made his condition worse and he lost his nose due to extensive tissue damage. More than a decade later, a team of doctors in Indore city decided to conduct a rare four-phased plastic surgery to give Arun a new nose.
Dr Ashwini Dash, who led the surgical team, told BBC Hindi's S Niazi that he was "confident that the new nose would work properly like his other organs".
He added that the entire operation took about a year to finish. In the first phase, a silicon "tissue expander" was put on his forehead to make space to grow a new nose. Then a special chemical was injected to make the tissues expand.
The second phase involved taking cartilage from his chest to create a new nose, which grew on his forehead over three months. The doctors removed the artificial nose in the third phase and implanted it on his face. The final phase involved repairing his forehead.
Contributed by BBC NEWS.
The country’s first stool bank, OpenBiome, is now selling capsules of fecal matter to treat life-threatening Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, infections.The $635 pill-based therapy, a type of fecal transplant, is highly effective against the difficult-to-treat gastrointestinal infection, according to results of a pilot study. A single dose, which includes a whopping 30 pills, cured 70 percent of patients. A second dose bumped the success rate up to 94 percent. The treatment, currently being sold only to doctors, may offer an easier alternative to other effective fecal transplant routes, namely colonoscopies, nasal tubes, and enemas.
C. diff infections sometimes take root while a patient is on antibiotics, which kills off and disrupts the patient's normal, healthy gut microbiome. In antibiotics’ wake, C. diff bacteria that usually reside quietly in the gut can run amok and produce toxins. Fecal transplants can stamp out the infection by replacing a patient’s disrupted gut microbial community with the gut microbes from a healthy patient, transferred via feces.
Read more ;http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/635-poop-pills-cure-deadly-gastrointestinal-infection/
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The glasses consist of a head-mounted device with a display which is equipped with vascular imaging technology. The company has managed to integrate technology into glasses, and a hands-free system projects overlays of digital content onto the user’s field of vision.
As it X-ray vision alone weren’t enough, the super glasses are also able to store the information in order to make the documentation of vein condition throughout the patient’s hospital stay more accessible. If that doesn’t make whomever is using these glasses feel like they have superpowers, then maybe the fact that the glasses an also interact with any electronic medical records.
Studies indicate that in nearly 40% of the cases, the first attempt to start an IV line fails, leading to the discomfort of the patient. That being said, the new device promises wonders! The amazing technology is actually the result of a combination between Evena’s multi-spectral 3D imaging technology with Epson’s Moverio smart glasses.
Eyes-On system is designed to automatically log all of the collected data from each procedure and stores it with the rest of the patient’s medical records. With the aid of Moverio’s Wi-Fi connectivity, everything that the nurse sees can easily be shared with doctors anywhere worldwide.
Contributed by Coolweirdo.com
