Medgadget is a medical technology information website in the United States that has been focusing on medical technology, products and innovation for ten years. Looking back over the past year's report, Medgadget has identified the most exciting, innovative, and patient-friendly new trends and products.
Flexible microelectronics
Flexible Microelectronics can adapt to the shape of irregular human tissues and cooperate with the movement of these tissues to achieve sensing capabilities, and even respond to different physiological parameters in the future. In this regard, Google contact lenses are a representative.
Google announced in January last year that it is developing a smart contact lens that can help diabetics monitor blood sugar levels by analyzing the glucose content in the tears of the wearer, thus eliminating the pain of taking blood tests from diabetic patients. The contact lens has tens of thousands of tiny transistors and a hairline-like antenna that is wirelessly sent to mobile devices such as smartphones.
John Rogers, a professor at the University of Illinois, and a research team at the University of Washington developed a flexible collar that wraps around the heart of a beating rabbit and monitors its electrical activity in 3D. In the near future, this technology may be used for highly accurate perception and response to arrhythmias.
In addition, Professor Rutgers has developed a flexible skin "patches" that record ECG and EEG signals and send them wirelessly to smartphones or other devices.
3D printing
Recently, 3D printing has received great attention. In the past year, we have seen 3D printing technology applied to replace bones, install prostheses for injured people in theaters, and surgery.
As we have reported, the “Project Daniel†project in South Sudan and a similar project jointly launched by the University of Toronto and the Autodesk Uganda Research Center are providing 3D printed prosthetic services to locals. Without the cost and external expertise, a team of trained local engineers can customize the prosthetic for those injured in the theater.
The more aggressive use of 3D printing in the medical field also included the printing of a new skull for a woman in the Netherlands and a facial plastic surgery for a man in the UK. In addition, in a facial transplant, the doctor also printed a 1:1 skull based on the patient's CT scan.
In China, the 3D printed titanium spine was successfully transplanted to patients, solving the problem of transplanting under rare orthopedic conditions and unusual anatomical structures. At the University of Michigan, a 3D printed tracheal splint was used in the child's respiratory tract to save his life.
Although 3D printing is still in the pre-clinical trial phase, we believe that the day that is universally applied to humans will come soon.
Intelligent induction prosthesis
Les Baugh, the American man, lost his arms 40 years ago because of an electrical accident, but the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) installed two prosthetic limbs with "ideal" control.
Doctors must activate the dead nerves and dock them with the nerves of the chest so that he can control his prosthetic limbs through "ideas." After training, Buff has been able to control his arms for some complex tasks. Although the system is still in its infancy, there is no doubt that future prosthetics will have greater “autonomyâ€.
Researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Pisa (ANASA) in Italy have developed a new type of intelligent prosthetic with a tactile sensor at the fingertip that senses the object being touched. By connecting with the human nerves, the prosthetic can feed back information such as the softness and shape of the object to the wearer, and thus can simulate the touch of the human hand to a certain extent.
Thanks to Battelle's "Neurobridge" technology, Ohio's non-profit research and development agency, a four-legged man can lift his arms again. "Nerve Bridge" is an electronic nerve branch for patients with spinal cord injury. It is like a high-definition muscle stimulation "tube sleeve" that connects the patient's brain and muscle directly so that they can achieve the right way. Functional control of one's own limbs. Today, the man has been able to turn his wrists, make fists, close his fingers, etc., and look like a normal arm.
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