subject: Sensor Networks For Medical Devices Wings - Sensor - The Pharmaceutical Industries [print this page] Sensor is not a new product, but a listing of over half a century old products. However, researchers using the newly developed software technology, the sensor information collected by wireless transmission to the user there?? This is the rise in recent years abroad, "Sensor Network" (sensornet) new technologies. Based on sensor network technology Medical Devices In the hospital, the family has a very wide range of applications, they will become the next years, the international medical device market selling products.
Narrow the distance between Doctors and Patients
By sensor network technology, people can be at home in real time on a computer thousands of miles away to Niagara Falls in the amount of water changes, pastoralists can be observed at home, kept their cattle or sheep grazing in the field situation, geologist can observe in the office earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other images. In the medical device industry, sensor networks have tremendous value. For example, almost 80% of U.S. households own more than one home Electronic Diagnostic equipment (such as electronic blood pressure meter, electronic blood glucose meter, etc.). However, the problem is, even if the patients measured their blood pressure, blood glucose data, his doctors are still unable to get first-hand information in a timely manner.
Not long ago, the United States, IBM and researchers at the University of Florida together Cooperation The use of a volume the size of only soy and special software embedded sensors to community hospitals can be kept informed of his medical homes for patients with blood glucose, blood pressure. This hidden in the electronic blood pressure meter, electronic blood glucose meter in the sensor data can be measured in time and wirelessly transmitted to the doctor's computer, so that medical personnel can make timely development of symptomatic treatment. Another advantage of the new technology is the use of sensor networks can be thousands of miles away in rural hospitals, CT, MRI and other electronic diagnosis of wireless transmission to large medical centers for expert consultation. This embedded sensor with the outside world by the end of data in the computer display special medical equipment, in a foreign country is also known as "smart medical devices" (smartmedicaldevice). This product seemed to grow wings, like, so that a doctor sitting in office regardless of distance can keep abreast of changes in the patient's body and to guide treatment.
Very wide range of applications The following are foreign developed or are developing sensor networks only have a number of new medical devices feature:
1. Automatically monitor blood oxygen content
Number of head trauma, brain tumor, cerebral hemorrhage and brain surgery needs in a timely manner in order to remove the brain tissue in the hematoma, or tumor, or they will endanger the life of patients. However, the brain is very sensitive to hypoxia, brain surgery if the brain occurs during hypoxia insufficient blood supply to the brain reaches a certain level will cause the patient suffered permanent brain damage. The surgeon doing brain surgery is difficult to observe the patient brain tissue hypoxia. U.S. researchers at Duke University recently developed a blood oxygen monitor new products, be close to the surface of the patient forehead, once in brain surgery patients in the brain tissue in hypoxia, it will immediately send sound and light signals to alert Doctors increase the amount of blood or oxygen.
2. Through the eyes of aqueous glucose monitoring equipment
Electronic blood glucose meters are now commercially available are mostly made by the patient's own finger prick blood samples for glucose determination. It has some problems for patients. British medical device company has recently developed a sensor-type finger prick blood glucose meters can be measured without the patient's blood sugar condition. The instrument works by: The issue of the 670 nm optical sensor wavelength LED light shines in the eyes of patients, patients in the eye by measuring glucose in aqueous conditions can be appropriately measured blood glucose, detect only 5 minutes of time. The industry believes that this non-invasive blood glucose measurement using optical sensors will have broad market prospects.by: gaga
