Medical Equipments Reviews

Perhaps the term “negative pressure” applied to the curing of the wounds we may be unknown. In essence this is an absorbing pressure applied over a wound. It is shown that by this method before the wounds heal and suffer less risk of infection. And it is particularly effective in wounds caused by amputation or open fractures.

Most hospitals have different equipment we apply this technique. But equipment is expensive and designed for a hospital. So the work developed in the new window MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is revolutionary in the field of emergency medicine.

A team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital new window Boston moved to Haiti in January, four weeks after the earthquake, with the aim of helping local physicians with patients who had open wounds, amputations and crushed members. In that Zurovcik team was Danielle, a graduate student at MIT, he had brought with it a device developed as part of his thesis research: a version of low cost and portable negative pressure devices that are commonly used in hospitals. The result was very convincing, while MIT has decided to put to-point and out to market.

The device invented by Zurovcik has a cost of about $ 3, and it appears that is able to improve the care patients receive once passed the emergency phase in the relief effort, misguided as they begin the surgeries to save members or even the patient’s life.

So it will be possible to have enough available units of this invention for possible future victims of natural disasters, or in any health center in underdeveloped countries. Basically this is no more than a simple bellows pump connected to a tube, applied to a wound dressing, can generate enough negative pressure to speed healing. The issue is that it has a really low cost (compared with hospital equipment) and can be manufactured anywhere in the world.

In these treatments, which often extend for weeks or months, negative pressure therapy to help reduce the need for dressing changes continuously. Instead of two or three shifts a day, you can do two or three a week. And this is a great advantage where resources and medical staff is scarce. The results show that up to three times can accelerate wound healing and in some cases (depending on the type of injury) to eliminate the need for plastic surgery or skin grafts.

Zurovcik itself states that “Not only see it as a product for those in developing countries, but I really could improve therapies within the United States.” The MIT team has shown that sometimes a good idea is much more effective than having a huge budget.