 Wireless Sensor Used to Monitor Pressure Inside Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA)
As per PRNewswire:
Dr. Barry Katzen of Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute in Miami uses a wand to take a wireless reading of the pressure deep inside the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) of Morton Perkis, 73. "It's like having an antenna in my aneurysm," Mr. Perkis says of the experimental microchip implanted at the same time his aneurysm was repaired last month. Today’s pressure reading was the first televised live to a major medical meeting, the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium in Washington, D.C.
I guess this would require changing the criteria for evaluating the need for intervention based on a previously unavailable parameter: pressure. It would also require that the ER have a scanner if an emergency arose. But the idea of using sensors whose data can be accessed wirelessly for specific diseases makes sense, especially when it could replace a radiologic procedure. I can imagine what the future ER will look like--a big black box through which a pt is passed and then diagnosed--but a big improvement over using a CT scan.
Quick Bits:
Mobile Diabetic Announces Java(tm) Phone Application For Mobile Diabetes Management - I know that there's a Palm OS app that can be used on the Treo which can interface with a bloodtesting device.
Specialized Hospital Mobile Phones with Lower Power Output - I'm not sure about the need for such a product. This press release says that cell phones have 17x the power output of these phones. But I've haven't seen any study showing that using a cell phone distant from medical monitoring equipment, say at a nurses station, presents a problem. I have other questions about the need to carry this extra phone. (more to come...)
There it is...more questions that need to be answered. This is typical of citing press releases.
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