This device would still be in the process of creation, a project that not only has the support of the European Community but also with 7.1 million directly financed by the Community institution.

As anticipated, the basis of DIAdvisor be a small wireless sensors, chip surrounded by a low Sicily, to be pasted into the body of patients and allow more data record: in addition to blood glucose, may also determine the body temperature, blood pressure and oxygen levels.

The same system will then transmit the data to the portable mobile device, which looks like a PDA or PDA.

But also we obtained this information, the device also will allow the patient to go beyond your control and up, for example, information about food that is consumed each day.

According to their own architects have emphasized, the most innovative of this device is to let you know how much insulin is needed: Keith Errey, co-founder of the project and president of Toumaz (manufacturer), highlighted the new opportunities offered to patients who so far have no ways to predict the levels of glucose and insulin they need.

It is worth mentioning, finally, that for the go live DIAdvisor still have to wait. According to estimates, within two years could just start clinical trials in real time with volunteers.

So far only a hypothesis, but the authors suggest that further studies in depth to say if confirmed as true or, conversely, can not be demonstrated.

The first step to see if the argument is true they have given themselves Italian researchers, who have measured changes in heart rate of 43 infants in incubators, none of whom was premature or seriously ill. Following a series of experiments, the team concludes, as published in ‘Fetal and Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood’, that electromagnetic fields from these machines alter the frequency of the beat of hearts of infants.

Before reaching this result, ruled first that this alteration was due to noise or vibration produced by the motor of the incubator. For this, the researchers simulated a device with the intensity of noise and vibration typical of incubators and measured heart rate of children who were quiet for 15 minutes with noise simulator on and off. There was no difference in the heartbeat.

They also studied the heart function of small every five minutes in the incubator on, then turned off and turned to her again. Then they saw that the heart rate decreased when the machine was running, something the authors suggest it may be due to the electromagnetic field.

The decrease in heart rate is a factor indicating a worse prognosis in adult patients with coronary disease and also in the general population, but whether it is the same with children. Therefore, researchers call for more studies on the subject, as to whether this exposure could result in a complication for long-term health.

No worry
“It’s the first time he says this and there is no evidence nor any reason to be concerned,” says a elmundo.es Dr. Manuel Sanchez Luna, neonatal intensive care at the Hospital Gregorio Maranon de Madrid. “Although everything is studied to improve the safety of children is fine,” he admits.

Siena’s team explains that “you can make some modifications to the design of incubators to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields. But he also recognizes that “it is not known if this exposure has consequences for the health of babies in the long term.”

The question on electromagnetic fields and its relation to health is controversial for years. Many appliances have been, on occasion, have been linked to health risks such as mobile phones, antennas, etc. But so far, the Italian authors assert that “there is no certainty that these areas be the cause of alterations in the body.”

These dolls are being used at the Munich University Clinic for students to conduct their practices, and perhaps it has spread to other Universities of Medicine. The truth is that it is a very complete team, with all the necessary complements both maternal and fetal monitoring (different monitors) as interchangeable parts, simulators bleeding.

You can practice vaginal delivery, cesarean section, vacuum extraction with the suture of the various types of episiotomy. In my opinion it’s OK for future physicians to practice with these dolls that try to imitate real life situations so achievedextraordinary. Although as they say, then reality is always stranger than fiction.

I also hope that, with this instruction so contrived and processes focused on instrumentalized, they will have to use in the future to allow at least the same efforts to teach that childbirth is a natural process that can also be taken with minimal intervention when the situation of the mother and baby permit.

But if robots are to babies to practice new parents, in the field of health care delivery could not be otherwise. I imagine that a student does not let you do real match practice, so these simulators, which are close in what they can to a real situation, are an interesting option.

In any case, this type dolls for virtual delivery practices seem to me a breakthrough technology, and hopefully serve to carry out more effective care delivery.

Eduardo Pereira Hospital in Valparaiso was conducted technical training for CTH CHILE who will be responsible, effective March, perform security operations that medical equipment will be analyzed with high technology for check compliance with optimal conditions for use.

During the training sessions examined the characteristics of electrosurgical equipment analyzers, defibrillator, ventilator, patient simulator Electromedical safety. The training had a theoretical component where it was explained in detail the theories involved. Besides the practical activities for which the Hospital Eduardo Pereira provided some of their equipment.

The experience was very satisfying for the audience. The technical Tonolli Stephanie, who serves on the Barros Luco Hospital said: “Win acquire the basic knowledge to manage these teams. The way it was explained quite clearly and accurately. Within the teams watched my attention analyzer monitor (patient simulator) and also the defibrillator, due to easy access to select the various tests. In turn Jorge Torrejón, CHILE CTH technician also said: “The purchase of such equipment and related training measurement seem very consistent with the needs and objectives of the Technology Management to develop, it allows us to monitor and deliver a particular service to our partners, whose results can yield interesting clues as to the Electromedical Security are working in hospitals today.

The activity marks the start of the delivery of this new service will begin to implement CHILE CTH in the different partner institutions and which falls within one of the goals of the project: to advise on security issues, ensuring optimal conditions for both teams users and patients.

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.

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

This method has been tested by a team from the CSIRO Australian E-Health Research Center (AEHRC) and Queensland Health. They use cell phones to collect and deliver health information and also monitor the activities of patients from their homes to a central computer data via Bluetooth.

Head AEHRc Dr Phil Gurney said less than 20 percent of patients after cardiac surgery should follow the recovery program for six weeks, should be back and forth to the hospital to check on their health condition.

“Therefore we provide this technology to meet those needs,” Gurney said as quoted from the ABC Science.

Cell phone used in this method has advanced accelerator that measures physical activity such as number of patients footsteps every day. Patients can also use their phones to record data and the level of blood pressure scale.

Patients were asked to photograph what they ate breakfast, recording video at the time they exercise, and using an electronic diary on the phone to record the data of stress levels, dietary habits, smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages.

“We try to utilize existing technology to each patient’s condition can be monitored well and save time and cost,” added Gurney.

In a study of 250 Danish adults stricken by a heart attack, Canadian researchers used a tensiometer to intermittently block the blood flow to an arm, an intervention that is started when the patient is transported to hospital by ambulance.

This intervention was developed by the Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto. It greatly limit the damage to heart muscle when a heart artery is blocked.

The sphygmomanometer is inflated for five minutes, then deflated for five minutes, the sequence is repeated four times. The operation lasts between 35 and 40 minutes.

Once at the hospital, the patient receives a typical treatment for a heart attack, including an angioplasty in which an inflatable balloon is used to open an artery blocked or obstructed.

The study, to be published Friday in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet, says that patients who took the blood pressure response with the sustained 30 percent less damage to heart muscle compared to those who have not received this treatment.

The damage was even reduced by 50 per cent among patients who suffered heart attacks the most devastating.

A leading researcher, Dr. Andrew Redington of Sick Kids, said that the idea behind this technique has been circulating for about 25 years.

When tissues are deprived of blood and oxygen intermittently, he said, it seems to prepare for a more prolonged interruption and a protective substance began to circulate in the body. And as the substance spreads throughout the body, it protects all the organs including the heart.

If Dr. Redington was encouraged by these results, it warns that further studies should be conducted even before the intervention becomes common practice.

His team is developing a particular automated blood pressure monitor that would make intervention easier and more efficient for staff health.

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The imaging device vscan, which received 510 (k) of the U.S. Agency for Medicines (Food and Drug Administration, FDA), the CE of the European Union and the licensing of medical device Health Canada, is now marketed in the United States, Europe, India and inCanada.

“To have at my disposal the vscan always allowed me to use ultrasound in a variety of settings and with patients in ways I never imagined before? The intensive care unit at the outpatient and ambulatory patients, “said Dr. Anthony N. DeMaria, Professor of Medicine, Chair Judith and Jack White in cardiology and director of the Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center at the San Diego School of Medicine at the University of California. “Vscan is more than just a diagnostic tool. This portable device would help physicians make quicker treatment decisions. I think technology vscan play an important role in physical examinations. ”

It quickly inside the body using the vscan may allow doctors to detect diseases earlier. What may be most valuable in practice overloaded today, especially for primary care physicians, specialists in cardiology, intensive care and emergency and gynecology, as well as hospital doctors.

“During our initial evaluation of 100 patients about using the vscan, we were impressed by its image quality and ease of use,” said Dr. Jose L. Zamorano, a member of the European Society of Cardiology, Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Medicine San Carlos de Madrid (Spain). “But more importantly, we have experienced in our own interest as a tool for our clinical and physical examination, which adds information relevant clinically for approximately one in four patients. ”

Vscan provides image quality that was only recently that the scope of an ultrasound console. Vscan based on graphics technology black and white high quality GE and imaging blood flow in color code embedded into a device that fits into your pocket, weighs less than 500 grams of 76 mm wide and 135 mm in length.

The vscan is an imaging device, measurement and analysis of ultrasound under control, designed for clinical applications of flow and detection of abdominal fluid, cardiology (adult and pediatrics), urology, medicine prenatal / obstetrics, pediatrics and chest / pleura and to examine patient care units front line and care.

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The device is placed directly on the skin, and use infrared sensors to take measurements. The operation is typical of a pulse oximeter, as blood absorbs certain wavelengths, and reflects the rest of the sensor. Although in principle is being developed for use by astronauts in space, it is expected that can be subsequently used for first aid kits.