The new era "in 2009 the best health science achievement (1)

The new era magazine (popular science magazine in the United States well-known Popular Science, simplified Chinese), published in December, the annual "100 best technical achievement", involving entertainment communications, automotive, computer, photography, video, security, health, medical, green, aerospace, home, work, sports and leisure in 11 areas.

Don't miss every heart murmur

3 m Littmann 3200-launched electronic stethoscope with sound amplification, but also can be heard in the patient's heart — which is bang, bang-heartbeat — delivered to PCs on the Cardioscan "software, the more accurately reveal which potential exceptions.

Even the best doctors, to accurately distinguish abnormal blood caused by weak noise does appear in the first or second heart after the heart is also difficult. Appear in the first heart after cardiac murmur is harmless, but after the second heart murmur but may be due to a cardiac birth defects, atrial septal defect, valvular stenosis or defects, and other diseases that affect blood flow. If the heart sounds particularly unusual, most doctors will require patients to undergo examination conclusions more clear, but the price is more expensive ECG check. 3 m introduced this stethoscope substitute doctor bruits speculation. It sounds via Bluetooth wireless transmission to a computer, the doctors Cardioscan "software to almost real-time sound curve displayed on computer screen. Subsequently, the software analyzes the Sonic curves, and will represent the harmful noise exception section details highlighted. The doctor was able to reduce the playback speed in half to a closer analysis of the problem, but also can save the file to a patient's examination results, and by email sent to heart disease expert to confirm the diagnosis. Initial tests show that this system can reduce every year 800 million unnecessary electrocardiogram examination and diagnosis and treatment of heart disease expert, saving billions in cost — and more importantly, it can more accurately capture the risk of noise. For doctors and all people, Stethoscope comes out two centuries since the first major upgrade absolutely will be far-reaching.

Real anti flu mask

This winter the mask again pop up, the more informed consumers will choose BioMask mask.

This mask in the weaving of cloth that you can lock the bacteria and viruses of cellulose, which masks the internal composition of zinc and copper can destroy these pathogens of cell killing it, preventing you from their infection or let your body go out again in the dissemination of pathogens. Laboratory tests show that the spraying 50 times a sneeze in influenza a virus, BioMask ability to in less than 1 minutes to kill 99.9% of influenza virus, 10 minutes later you will be able to kill them all — and ordinary masks under the same conditions, there are still more than 5 million. This can be a good respirator facial curve fitting the touch will be able to immediately kill the bacteria, so one day can be repeated several times to wear rather like an ordinary wear a mask that must be replaced in a timely manner. At present this mask has been listed on the Hong Kong and Europe.

OSO second-generation POWER KNEE prostheses

Gait more naturally in combination including torque and Acceleration sensors, gait control devices, artificial intelligence systems and drives, new technology, the Austrian cable company developed allows amputees gait more natural, walking more secure second generation Power Knee prostheses, which is the world's first for thigh amputees of power-driven artificial intelligence artificial limb.

Advanced sensors and artificial intelligence technology to help users stay on top of gait — simply put, other things are accomplished by prostheses. Once the contact with the ground, the Power Knee can in any given bending angle by providing maximum support, which is on walking instability or need canes of amputees, is essential.

Simple arithmetic ClearCount

Cart to calculate the surgery in patients with physical quantity of the sponge, and tell the doctor is not least a sponge.

CLEARCOUNT SMARTPONGE sponge surgery will no longer be a sponge was left in vivo ClearCount sponge in surgery to complete their own vampire's mission, it will remind doctors do not leave it accidentally left in the patient's body — this joke in seen error could be fatal, will not only prolong the patient's hospital stay, but use more antibiotics to prevent infection. Each mission sponge is safely inside a radio frequency tag (RFID), installed in the table of scanner will continue to examine their current location, and calculates how many sponge touched patients. When the doctor to complete the operation, as long as you pick up the RFID scanning wand in patients so again, we will be able to ensure no sponge left in his body. The use of each surgery costs about 20 ~ 30 USD.

XHALE HYGREEN sterilization monitoring systems to ensure that doctors wash their hands

Wash helps to prevent the spread of bacteria of medical staff of cross-infection, the United States in each of nosocomial infection cases up to 200 000.

HyGreen system to remind staff and wash, do not wash their hands of personnel records. Alcohol can kill the bacteria 99.99%, with alcoholic disinfectant SOAP, doctors and nurses to put his hands into the sensor following HyGreen are examined, it could smell the taste of alcohol, then a "has been thoroughly cleaned," wireless transmission of information to medical personnel to wear a badge. Installed in the patient bedside Wireless Monitor scans these information, if not this badge information, it will vibrate to remind the wearer to be disinfected. At the University of Florida on HyGreen system for a period of 5 months of field testing, nosocomial infection rate drops to zero.