10 gambar inovasi spesifik dalam bidang kesihatan,kejururawatan dan perubatan

 

1. Boston Children’s Hospital Use 3D Models to Shorten Surgeries

Detailed operations can dangerous and long. The more time a patient is in surgery, the bigger the risk. A growing number of hospitals, including Boston Children’s Hospital, are using 3D operating models that allow surgeons to practice complex operations before they walk into the operating room. Practicing beforehand not only helps the surgeries go more quickly but also allows surgeons to test innovative practices to be more confident of their success. 3D printing allows hospitals to create exact models of a patient’s organs for detailed practice

2.  VR Helps Patients in Difficult Situations

Certain situations can be difficult for patients, such as going through childbirth or facing anxiety about an upcoming surgery. Startup VRHealth has partnered with healthcare providers to bring virtual reality to patients. The innovative concept is rather simple: patients are given VR glasses during painful or difficult procedures to minimize the stress. The technology makes for a more pleasant patient experience while also creating a better environment for providers to safely perform the procedure. VR technology also helps clinics gather new patient information and share treatment instructions for after the patient goes home.

 

 

3. Biologics in orthopaedics repair

After orthopaedic surgery, the body can take anywhere from months to years to recover. But biologics – cells, blood components, growth factors, and other natural substances – have the power to replace or harness the body’s own power and promote healing. These elements are finding their way into orthopaedic care, allowing for the possibility of expedited improved outcomes.

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4. Antibiotic envelope for preventing infection with cardiac implants

Cardiac implant devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators come with a risk of infection. But encasing these devices in an antibiotic “envelope”—a mesh sleeve embedded with antibiotics—ensures the slow delivery of 2 antibiotics, rifampin and minocycline, for 7 days after implantation. The week-long release of antibiotics minimizes the risk of infection.

“The absorbable envelope received FDA clearance in 2013, but healthcare professionals were awaiting results from the landmark worldwide randomized WRAP-IT [Worldwide Randomized Antibiotic Envelope Infection Prevention] trial,” according to the Cleveland Clinic. “The findings published in March show a 40% reduction in major infections making cardiac implantable device procedures safer for patients.”

5. Closed-loop spinal cord stimulation

Conventional spinal cord stimulation works by sending electric impulses along the spinal column through an implanted spinal cord stimulator, reducing the pain signals that reach the brain. However, each patient is prescribed a fixed dose of stimulation, which doesn’t take the individual's movement into account, limiting its effectiveness. Now, researchers have developed closed-loop spinal cord stimulation, which gets feedback from the patient’s own spinal cord. The closed-loop system uses a stimulator that’s able to communicate in real time with spinal cord neurons and modulate the dose of stimulation accordingly. It’s the first such system to measure the spinal cord’s response to stimulation and adjust each pulse according to the patient’s activity. “With this technology, patients are getting measurable pain relief, sleeping better, and taking less medication,” according to the Cleveland Clinic. “Pending approval, closed-loop stimulation could be a saving grace for chronic pain patients everywhere.”

6.  DiFoBod, a diabetic foot management telehealth system

OTEN Medical is dedicated and focused on improving the quality of life for people with Diabetes. The company will be showcasing the DiFoBod: A Diabetic Foot Care Telehealth System. The DiFoBod is designed to facilitate daily foot care assessments, adequately drying between toes where elderly find it difficult to reach. The DiFoBod captures images of the foot soles top self asses and connect with their healthcare providers through Telehealth to evaluate images and provide ongoing care.

 

7. Heart failure monitoring socks

 The sock contains a drift-free ankle size sensor and a leg tissue elasticity sensor. Both sensors are inexpensive and developed using innovative new sensing ideas. Preliminary tests with the sensor prototypes show promising results: The ankle size sensor is capable of measuring 1 mm changes in ankle diameter and the tissue elasticity sensor can detect 0.15 MPa differences in elasticity. A low-profile instrumented sock prototype with these two sensors has been successfully fabricated and will be evaluated in the future in an IRB-approved human study.

 8.   Q2 Solution, a medical device that provides moving support to bedbound patients

The Q2 Solution was designed to reduce the rate of nurse injuries. By reducing worker's comp claims, there should be more staff available, increasing the ability to adhere to the Q2 Protocol, which requires patients to be turned every two hours to prevent pressure ulcers. The potential impact will ultimately be a reduction in litigation and hospitals absorbing the cost of "never events,” or preventable errors in medical care.

9.  Neoneur, a tool to assess the neurological development of newborns.

Neoneur provides a means to measure neurological development using oral feeding-based biomarkers, improving clinical care for premature and at-risk infants who struggle to orally feed successfully, and a means to detect potential developmental delays.   Lack of oral feeding success is the leading cause for delay of discharge from the neonatal intensive care units for premature and surgical infants.

10. Jonathan Rothberg: An ultrasound in your pocket

Jonathan Rothberg, a Yale genetics researcher and serial entrepreneur, figured out how to put ultrasound technology on a chip, so instead of a $100,000 machine in a hospital, it’s a $2,000 go-anywhere gadget that connects to an iPhone app. It went on sale last year to medical professionals. “Our goal is to sell to 150 countries that can pay for it. And [the Gates Foundation] is distributing it in 53 countries that can’t,” Rothberg says. The device isn’t as good as the big machines are and won’t replace them in prosperous parts of the world. But it could make scanning more routine. “There was a time when the thermometer was only used in a medical setting, when a blood-pressure cuff was only used in a medical center,” Rothberg says. “Democratizing [health] happens on multiple dimensions.”—Don Steinberg