In the future, could belong to the dreaded drill in the treatment of cavity-filled teeth of the past. German researchers have developed a method by which they could be cleaned with a plasma jet on an infected tooth from almost all bacteria.

Had decreased the concentration of the least harmful microorganisms in experiments on infected, previously pulled teeth by a factor of 10,000, said the scientists of the Leibniz Institute for Surface Modification in Leipzig and the University Hospital of the Saarland.

In the novel treatment helium is passed through a narrow nozzle and excited by microwaves. In this way, the noble gas reaches the fourth state (down to) liquid and gas and is plasma forming.

The fine resulting beam reach temperatures between 30 and 40 degrees Celsius. “This makes the temperature compatible” said Stefan dentists Rupf to the German news magazine Der Spielgel. Excessively high temperatures could damage the nerves that would be avoided in this way.

The researchers believe their technology could be designed with the treatment of dental caries gently and effectively. Previously, tests on patients are still necessary, the market maturity of the procedure would be to probably reached only in a few years.

ALD is characterized by a progressive degradation of insulation of the nerves in the central nervous system (brains and spinal cord) that is associated with insufficient functioning of the adrenal glands. This causes various symptoms, including paralysis and impaired motor control (ataxia).

There are two distinct types, which reflect different ages. The most common is the form in childhood is reflected. The adult form, also known adrenomyeloneuropathie called, begins in adulthood. The symptoms of both forms can vary in severity and form, because different parts of the central nervous system are affected. ALD occurs only in boys and men, and women who are carriers of the disease may have symptoms.

Diagnosis
The diagnosis is made after extensive neurological examination. Also a blood test or testing a piece of tissue taken (biopsy) can help the diagnosis.

Treatment
At this time a bone marrow transplant is the only effective therapy. The drawbacks are large. Not only is there a suitable donor needs, whether this concerns a very serious surgery (55% survival after 5 years in ALD patients).

Occurrence (frequency)
ALD occurs only in boys and men, and women who are carriers of the disease may have symptoms. The disease is about boys in 1:20.000.

Inheritance
The inheritance of recessive X-linked ALD runs.

Pediatric larynx is different in abounding ways. It is placed top up in the neck, the overhanging omega shaped epiglottis makes decision of larynx about impossible. It is important to architecture laryngoscopes that could affected these anatomical variations.

Pediatric laryngoscopes can be classified into general purpose laryngoscopes and laryngoscopes designed for special purposes.

General purpose laryngoscopes are designed with the intention of providing a good view of oropharynx, laryngeal inlet and laryngopharynx of an infant.

Special purpose laryngoscopea are usually operating laryngoscopes used during surgical procedures involving larynx.

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.

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.”

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The software displays a very realistic with which patients can practice all the venipuncture protocol. Students must use the right tool every time and in proper order, otherwise it stops the simulation. Students must choose the appropriate size of needle, using appropriate antiseptic technique and prick the vein at the precise angle using the injection device connected to your computer.

By introducing the needle, students may notice a resistance similar to that received in real patients. And if the puncture is not correct, the ‘virtual patient’ audibly expresses pain. Once completed, the exercise computer system makes note to the student.

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.

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.

Traditional treatment requires the use of amblyopia special glasses so thick that for several months before the eyes of patients actually improved.

According to the researchers, this method will actually worsen the conditions that resulted in eye health social stigma for the patient’s infancy. In other words, this method is not 100 percent effective. Such information is quoted from the Times of India.

Ophthalmologist and a brain Uri Polat, from Tel Aviv University developed a computer method of therapy that helps heal children with amblyopia by allowing them to enjoy the fun playing games while undergoing therapy.

When patients late in playing computer games, he would stay awake and hopes things beyond expectations.

“How this treatment, originally only intended for adults only, namely to improve nerve activity in the brain, which acts as the operator function of the eye. But when applied to children with amblyopia, the therapy seems to play this game can also heal them,” Polat said.

The results showed that the therapy was in front of the computer for 20 hours of therapy has an effect equivalent to 500 hours using special glasses amblyopia patients.

Polat was now working with gaming experts from the University of Rochester developed a special game for therapy children with amblyopia.

This engineering eye is not as perfect as the original eye. But by replacing the function of retinal cells, this bionic robot can help provide the basis for the vision of those who suffer from retinitis pigmentation or age-related muscular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness.

In addition, users will be wearing special glasses equipped with a small camera that can send images to a chip relay wrapped in titanium that is placed on the outer surface of the eyeball. The chip will then send the electrode under the retina to stimulate the optic nerve. Glasses will also wireless send that surrounds the eyeball.

MIT scientists have been working to develop this retinal implants for 20 years as part of the Boston Retinal Implant Project. Around 10 years ago, the researchers tested six electrodes in the blind patients, who reported seeing clouds like images when stimulated.

“We need three years to test this retinal implant, in order to work optimally,” explained chairman of the MIT scientists Jhon Wyatt, told Cnet.

Retinal implant has been successfully tested in pigs for 10 months without damaging the electronics.

Around 20 teams around the world who work to make dreams eye implants, is now developing cochlear implants are intended for hearing-impaired people.