Arts bionic and biomechanics; chip under that help to “explore” the world around them; medical robot to preside over the departments of the hospitals. The future of health care and assistance to the sick seems to be increasingly linked to the evolution of high technology. There is a field of medical science that has not been hit by an innovation of this kind: the use of nanotechnologies for the fabrication of the development of droids able to take the place of medical ward, the future of medicine seems to be marked.
Corps bionic
The combination of high-tech medicine and is an immediate union in the manufacture of bionic prostheses. In the past few weeks Argus II , bionic eye made by the U.S. company Second Sight (“Second sight” translated into Italian), has obtained clearance from the U.S. health authorities and will now also be implanted in humans human. This particular prosthesis may return the partial recovery of sight to retinitis pigmentosa patients, allowing them to distinguish between light and darkness.
Argus II is composed of a pair of glasses with a video camera, connected directly to the cells functioning of the retina. The implanted will derive an image in shades of gray with a resolution of 50×60 pixels. In this way they can distinguish the shapes of the objects that they will face and whether they are in motion.
From Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago , however, comes the first bionic limb moved by human thought. In this case, it is a leg planted in the U.S. Zac Vawter, thirty-one able to check out this gem of nanotechnology after two months of intense “training.” Zac, who lost his right leg in a tragic automobile accident in 2009, two nerves of the leg connected to those of the tendon, which in turn is connected with the limb bionic. The impulses of the brain arrive at the artificial leg traveling through the nerves and here processed by the central computer.
sensitive skin
An Israeli research institute is developing a rather artificial leather with a flexible chip that can restore sensitivity and tact to those who have suffered burns, amputations or serious damage to the epidermis.
The artificial skin, made with gold nanoparticles implanted on a metal base flexible, would be able to detect temperature, humidity and chemicals. In addition to the touch, of course. The sensor, said Dr. Nir Peled, director of the Thoracic Cancer Research and Detection Center at the Sheba Medical Center, is very stable and adaptable to any shape and size.
Medicine 3D
Similarly, the three-dimensional printers are finding increasing applications in the medical field. In Japan, for example, are used to make reproductions in three dimensions of the fetuses. A magnetic resonance imaging scan allows you to acquire the necessary data to create a 3D model of the fetus to be printed then in two resins of different colors.
Many research team – from the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart at Harvard – are also developing 3D printing techniques for the production of artificial blood vessels. The veins were created through a procedure similar to the technique and technology of photocopying, could soon find wide application in the medical field and placed in the human body without the risk of rejection.
Telemedicine
According to the Canadian Scholarship Trust Plan will be one of the most popular professions in the space of 15 years. The tele- surgeon will be able to operate – maybe wearing a pair of Google Glass or another model of smartglasses – even hundreds of miles away from the operating room. It will be sufficient a robotic arm and a sophisticated remote control system in order to perform any type of operation.
More generally, in the near future, telemedicine will receive a major boost from the development of hi-tech. The wearable devices – the evolution of today’s fitness bracelets – allow you to track the vital signs of less severe patients outside of the hospital. With these devices the doctors will be able to assist them remotely, assessing the general conditions and deciding whether or not to proceed with the case-patient.
Doctor robot
Once we arrived at the hospital, patients will find to welcome a team of doctors robot . And though it may seem simple fantasy (if not science fiction), several specialized companies are working so that it can quickly be transformed into reality. In the UAE, for example, the possibility of using droids in some rehabilitation centers is far-fetched. At the time, we read in the news technology of the country of the Arabian Peninsula, the robots should replace men in marginal roles – and housekeeping departments – but not excluding other forms of use by return of post.
From the sterilization of surgical instruments and local, to care for patients with cognitive disorders such as autism, the robots will find increasing use within the departments of the hospitals, coming to replace completely – or almost – the doctors in flesh and bones.
May 20, 2014
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