August 26, 2008
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Christopher Holden, a student of Northumbria University, UK, studying Design for industry, has re-designed the conventional needle. His design, called ‘MediDome’, is intended to eliminate needle stick injuries, cross contamination of blood-borne viruses such as HIV and hepatitis and the fear of needles. The design of MediDome ensures that veins would not be ruptured during intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. A soft flexible plastic is used in manufacturing MediDome, pre-filled with a measured drug dose that avoids the need for priming
August 13, 2008
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“Where there is love, distance doesn’t matter.” —Amma
In January 2003, the Amrita Telemedicine facility was inaugurated from Kavaratti on the Lakshadweep Islands located 220 nautical miles off the coast of Kerala. AIMS is the first institution in Kerala to begin using telemedicine to treat patients in remote places in India, such as the Lakshadweep Islands, Port Blair on the Andaman Islands and Leh, Ladakh, thereby vastly improving the quality of healthcare for the local populations.
Telemedicine is a method by which specialist doctors can examine, investigate, monitor and treat patients in remote areas through satellite video conferencing. AIMS’ telemedcine programme is made possible through its link with an ISRO [Indian Satellite Research Organisation] satellite. Telemedicine is used to transmit patients’ medical images, records, output from medical devices and live two-way audio and video. With the help of these, specialist doctors can advise, online, the doctors or paramedics at the patient’s end on medical care, or even guide the doctor during a surgery.
August 06, 2008
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Loughborough University engineers have forged a partnership with experts in India to develop their unique mobile phone health monitoring system.
The device, which was first unveiled in 2005, uses a mobile phone to transmit a person’s vital signs, including the complex electrocardiogram (ECG) heart signal, to a hospital or clinic anywhere in the world.
Created by Professor Bryan Woodward and Dr Fadlee Rasid from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, the system enables a doctor to observe remotely up to four different medical signals from a freely moving patient. Signals that can be transmitted include the ECG, blood pressure, oxygen saturation and blood glucose level.
