Importance of Technologies for the Internal Body Systems!

Topic: Evaluate the importance of various technologies, including Canadian contributions, to our understanding of internal body systems (digestive, circulatory or respiratory).

Technology is very important in our society, because technology can save many lives! With technology, scientists and doctors are able to access new areas of internal organs that have not previously been examined without open surgery. Technology can help health by just simply using your cell phone to call your doctor to complicated machines which helps cure patients.


Procedures that involve the heart are always dangerous for the patient and are very risky, but with the use of technology, it improves the visualization of the area and can increase the accuracy of the placements. Endoscopic Ultrasound can be used to visualize the heart and help guide interventions which help increase the success rate of the surgery. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is frequently performed with a scope to visualize and detect abnormalities in the digestive system.

The human vascular system is a very important system in which problems in the system can result serious health problems. Endoscopic ultrasonography is the practice of using an ultrasound transducer at the tip of an endoscope to visualize and offer therapeutic intervention to the gastrointestinal tract and its surrounding structures. Capsule endoscopy is when a patient swallows a small camera that records images of the intestinal tract. This can be used to observe and examine the intestines and other areas in the digestive system. Another way of examining the digestive system is with double balloon enteroscopy in which doctors use a scope fitted with two balloons to navigate the entire small bowel. When inflated with air, the balloons can expand sections of the small intestine to allow the camera a closer examination.
 Computer programs are still very important and useful in medical settings while researchers are looking for new ways to use technology to increase the effectiveness and accuracy of surgeries. Scientists monitor and deliver sedation during surgery with computer assisted personalized sedation (CAPS), which uses computer software to ease precise control of drug delivery.

Technology is surely growing with the amount of donations and investment given to medical research as stated in this article. (http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/597299) It seems to be the modernized way to handle health issues nowadays. Although, doctors still have to know how to treat patients without technology, many are relying on technology to help the surgeries have an increase in success. In my opinion, the money invested on technology for health care is worth it since, it saves many lives!





Sources:


http://carleton.ca/Capital_News/02112007/n6.shtml

http://www.vitallywell.net/images/digestive-system-diagram.jpg

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/aga-ngt051906.php

http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/597299



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