Director of Nursing, Maria Jesus Nunez, said the dummy-patient is the “cornerstone” of the simulation unit that opened yesterday in that college, and to “provide students the best way to practice to have one of the best art simulators that are in Galicia and in almost all of Spain, as only three other universities have it. ”

The unit was inaugurated by the Vice Chancellor of the European Higher Education Area, Maximum Plo Casaus, the rector of University Community, José Manuel Mayán, and the manager of the 061, Antonio Iglesias, as well as faculty and students.

Once dubbed the classroom, the students got down to work and began practicing with the simulator, as explained by Maria Jesus Nunez, “through a software can reproduce any possible disease: myocardial infarction, respiratory failure, pulmonary edema, sprains, appendicitis or fracture.

But students can not only do resuscitation in the event of a heart attack, but can also manage, through the drug of their choice. If you make the right treatment, the patient will be saved, otherwise, will not recover. “All this may prove through a monitoring system,” said the director of the School of Nursing.

Nunez said the simulator will be used in the Master of health care and care management, and also in the degree of Nursing. In the near future also provides for use by residents of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The acquisition of advanced simulator-at a cost of 36,000 euros is the result of an agreement between the University of Santiago and the Xunta de Galicia.

The implementation and operation of the classroom simulation has received the “valuable” partnership of 061, Nunez said.

The doctor was delayed in traffic. The nurses checked the vital signs calmly told him that will bid and even comforted.

“Everything’s fine, Mom,” the patient told the nurse Jascinth Brown, Plantation General Hospital. Fifteen minutes later, a premature but healthy baby was born with feet first.

Although the situation seemed real, the patient was a life-size mannequin named Noel. Within artificial baby had a cord and all.

Medical simulators have come a long way since the 60s, when first used a dummy named Annie to teach CPR. Using sensors and computer to mimic human reactions bodies, mannequins respond to anesthesia and mimic heart attacks and arrhythmias. They breathe, bleed, cry, speak and even give birth.

And its use has grown rapidly in Florida, where dozens of hospitals, universities, high schools and fire departments use them.

“They seem real,” said Brown, who was attentive to his patient’s vital signs on monitors during a recent training activity organized by the Florida Atlantic University (FAU). “I’ve worked in labs at the School of Nursing, but I’ve never seen a real game. Here we simulate a birth.”

Experts believe that the simulations improved medical services to provide an opportunity for students to learn critical skills and make mistakes in a realistic setting, without compromising the patient’s life. Students are tested and sometimes filmed during the drills.

The trainers then discussed ways in which students can improve their skills.

Plantation nurses said they had blood drawn to the pregnant patient, a mistake that they will never commit.

“They gained experience and confidence they need before getting into a situation where they do can mean life or death of a patient,’’said Mark Goldstein, director of FAU simulation center.

After six weeks of classes and simulations, nurses begin to deal with patients.

FAU has two simulation centers, one in his compound in Boca Raton and one in St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, where the simulation took place recently. The exercise of labor was part of a new convention to which the university helps train nurses from 12 medical centers in Hospital Corporation of America in South Florida and elsewhere.

The Research Center of Medical Education Michael S. Gordon, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miami (UM) is a simulation centers oldest and best established in the country. Gordon, MD, UM professor, invented in 1968 a cardiac patient simulator called Harvey that is often used.

With these data, patients may tune in the administration of doses, avoiding physiological complications arising from an excess of insulin. In four years it is expected that the technology is available on the market. Scientists say it is very necessary because diabetes is increasingly present in our society as a result of lifestyle we lead. For Yaiza Martínez.

Diabetics can reduce the amount of insulin that administrate with the help of a new portable and wireless device designed to predict blood glucose levels.

This device, known as “DIAdvisor ™” will be developed by the company Toumaz Technology, specializes in manufacturing wireless devices and low power consumption to control the body. The project falls under the Seventh Framework Program of the European Community, which has earmarked 7.1 million euros.

The purpose of development of this device is to improve the lives of millions of diabetes patients, with an art tool for personalized prediction of blood glucose levels, reports Toumaz Technology in a statement.

The tool will be created thanks to a partnership of 13 doctors and several industry partners and academics. The work will be coordinated by Novo Nordisk company specializing in the care of this disease.

What is

DIAdvisor technology (Personal Glucose Predictive Diabetes Advisor) will be based on a wireless control technology of the body, existing and belonging to the company Toumaz Technology Sensium call.

Sensors consist of small, wireless and discreet, surrounded by a silicium chip low-power, which will stick to the body of the sick to log certain data, such as body temperature, blood pressure, blood glucose levels or oxygen, among other parameters.

According to The Engineer magazine reported online, the system transmits this data to a portable mobile device like a PDA or PDA. By hand, it may also introduce any other information you want, like food that has consumed the patient.

All these data will be analyzed later by an advanced algorithm to determine glucose levels in the patient’s blood at any particular time. In this way, patients will know in a matter of minutes, the amount of insulin will be administered at the next dose.

Breakthrough
According to Keith Errey, co-founder and president of Project Toumaz, current techniques for managing diabetes does not offer the ability to predict blood glucose levels in the short term. This means that patients should almost assume the amount of insulin they need to recover the stable levels of blood glucose.

Scientists hope, moreover, that this technology serves to avoid the risk of blackouts suffered by diabetics when their blood sugar levels drop dramatically. Many of the sick, in fact, prefer to consume higher doses of insulin than necessary to avoid the crisis, but the excess insulin also has its risks, including possible damage to the eyes, heart or liver.

But before he can see the light DIAdvisor are still important steps to take, how to define the combination of vital signs that provide the best information to determine the blood glucose level. For this, scientists will have a team of volunteers with diabetes to help generate the physiological models and prediction algorithms.

Within two years, will begin clinical trials in which they will operate these algorithms in real time and test the prediction models. If everything runs according to plan for the scientists, the technology will be available in the market within four years.

Technology increasingly necessary
According to published Toumaz, the massive increase in the incidence of diabetes is now a major global health challenges. This increase is due to demographic trends clear, as the epidemic of obesity, aging, or the spread of sedentary lifestyles.

All these factors have caused a massive spread of diabetes, especially type 2. In the case of type 1 diabetes, the pancreas does not produce insulin, but in the pancreas of type 2 if that makes it, but the body assimilates as it should.

Consequently, the pancreas produces more insulin to get glucose into cells, and just exhausted due to excessive strain. In addition, blood sugar levels get too high.

In the European Union, the average prevalence of this disease is 7.5% but is expected to increase to 16% in 2025. Scientists hope that, with DIAdvisor, it can provide a sophisticated treatment of the sick, thus enhancing self-management of disease and reduce the risk of serious complications resulting from poor control of glucose levels in the blood.

Stergiou of Sotiria Hospital of Athens (Greece) and colleagues assessed the automatic device in 73 people: 27 with atrial fibrillation, 23 with arrhythmia other than atrial fibrillation and 23 reference persons in sinus rhythm.

Overall, rose to 217 blood pressure measurements, all with simultaneous ECG monitoring.

The authors note that when the diagnosis of atrial fibrillation was based in a single measurement, the sensitivity of the algorithm was 93% and specificity of 89%.

Under optimal circumstances (three measurements with at least two to diagnose atrial fibrillation) the sensitivity was 100% and specificity of 89%, indicating a “near perfect match” with the electrocardiograph diagnosis.

Under these optimal circumstances (diagnosis based on two measurements at least three positive) diagnosis of atrial fibrillation was incorrect in five people.

In all these cases, patients had arrhythmia other than atrial fibrillation in the three measurements.

Dr. Stergiou told Reuters Health that long-term self-monitoring of hypertensive patients using a device equipped with an atrial fibrillation detector would allow an earlier diagnosis without additional screening costs.

He added that the “implementation of this technology should be evaluated in other devices for measuring blood pressure and for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring 24-hour blood pressure (especially in patients with intermittent atrial fibrillation), which could also contribute to Early detection of undiagnosed atrial fibrillation and therefore the prevention of stroke. ”

“Additional research is needed on the accuracy of electronic blood pressure monitors in patients with atrial fibrillation, aimed at improving the treatment of hypertension in these patients.”

Endoscopic demand is growing and tending to increase its minimally invasive nature and the great amount of information it provides. It also enables accurate and efficient diagnosis while curative treatments.

Also, the endoscopy unit is equipped to perform a technique called endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), which is recommended for diagnosis and treatment of certain diseases of the biliary tract and pancreas. Before his deployment was also carried out a great effort of organization and training section, carrying out some of its practitioners a training process that enabled their entry into the service portfolio.

Before the launch of this new technique for patients who needed it had to be moved to other hospitals. A total of 122 patients have been able to benefit from this new technique.

Increased patient safety
The Endoscopy Unit has significantly increased the safety of the patient undergoing the endoscopic procedure, reducing the inconvenience that may occur in patients undergoing surgery and improved the comfort of them. It also allowed us to increase the activity of the unit, with the consequent reduction of waiting time and the operation of this service which is adjacent to external queries.

The endoscopy area consists of a pre-sedation room, two rooms for gastrointestinal examinations and a room for endoscopic examination of breath. All are equipped with the latest technology, with towers high definition endoscopy. Moreover, integrating a sedation and recovery room consisting of four beds reserved for the recovery of patients treated, with complete equipment for surveillance monitoring of patients after anesthesia.

It also has a cleaning and disinfection module connected to the three endoscopy rooms, where they proceeded to a prompt and proper sterilization of equipment to expedite and other interventions.

70% of world population has no access to this diagnosis, I say Zar, since it is difficult to have an MRI or scanner in a rural community where there is no electricity. Through the cell, the images may be sent to a centralized unit where specialists can analyze and diagnose.

The technology used for Windows-compatible phones, the company that funded the research with a grant of 100 000 dollars. The probes are priced at about $ 2 000 and the goal is worth $ 500, while a typical portable ultrasound machine sells for up to 30 000 dollars.

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With an optional trandsuctores different types. In the basic configuration comes with a single transducer.

However, these machines are usually quite large, and the most modern “portable” is the size of a printer.

For now the GE (General Electric) has demonstrated a truly portable ultrasound system the size of a cell phone, which he calls the vscan GE Ultrasound System.

In this first generation, the device can operate for up to 1 h duration with a battery (exchangeable) integrated, and microSD cards can store images and videos, which can later be downloaded to PCs and traditional computers can even burn notes voice separately.

The standard equipment is configured for HP, OBGYN, and Abd (terms such equipment operators understand) and color Doppler support across the screen, which step can be manipulated with your fingers to issue commands and make JOINING zoom like an iPhone.

The device will be available next year at U.S. $ 10,000, and it is currently being tested in some health centers.

It is important to note that these teams started costing millions of dollars and being the size of an entire room, after hundreds of thousands of dollars, and now cost $ 10,000 and fit in the palm of the hand. A great testament to the exponential growth of technology, which incidentally causes a reduction in costs exponentially.

In the future I imagine that these devices do not use screens, but images deployed directly onto the retina of the operator with technologies like this.

The local hospital Virgen del Carmen, this year will be equipped with a portable ultrasound and mammography, as assured sources of the Health Ministry in Buenos Aires DISCUSSION.

The provision of infrastructure, to conduct timely analysis to patients, is part of the recent opening of the tender envelopes by the Provincial Government with the aim of improving the technological equipment in the hospitals.

A mammography unit is a rectangular box containing the tube that generates X-rays. The unit is used exclusively for X-ray examinations in the breast with special accessories that allow only the ma-ma will be exposed to X-rays Connected to the unit super-carriers of a device he argues and compresses the breast and positions in order to obtain images from different perspectives.

Since the ultrasound carrier arrived tiles ultrasound market, the chances of obtaining medical diagnoses were expanded its horizons in all specialties.
These devices have all the benefits of conventional ultrasound machines have, in some cases, more than 100 pounds.

The latest models feature high resolution screens of images, which makes them a more than attractive tool for work and development of diagnostic imaging.
For its malleability, the portable Delphi ecogra won, in principle, much ground in the area of medical emergencies, since they allow a diagnosis in situ without the removal or excessive patient movement.

This technique is like providing a “big picture” to facilitate the genetic study of the AIDS virus. Not only led to the discovery of AIDS therapies in new ways, this technique can also be used to observe and diseases such as influenza virus and others.

“We really hope that this technique can help find the most potent drugs,” said Kevin Weeks of the University of North Carolina, as quoted by Reuters.

“We’ve had a series of major plans we can try through this technique,” he added.

According to Weeks, there are many structures contained in the RNA of HIV genetic role in the expression of the genetic code. Formerly, the role of this structure is not considered to have an important role.

Weeks and his team then developed a new chemical method called SHAPE to create an image of RNA nucleotides and also its shape and fold the edge of the RNA.

Other imaging methods such as X-ray Crystallography can capture the position of each atom exactly, but only in small areas. While SHAPE, showed greater imaging, but not at the atomic level.

“In essence, this technique such a way that enlarge image imaging genetic mapping to get a broader view and more complete details on the genetic virus,” said Weeks.

This technique will help researchers create drugs that is more effective to treat a variety of viruses from the disease.

New drugs will be produced to meet the specific requirements of the virus structure, so it can block them to attack the cells or at least prevent it can replicate itself.