Medical advances in this 21st century

As I venture into this new project, I want to invite you to journey with me, and you will get to learn so much in the world of medicine. If you haven’t visited the hospital, then you should count yourself one lucky being in the human race. Bacteria, viruses, and toxins are always on the rise and amid human beings and animals in general. Their effects are varying, but in most cases, they still have a terrible impact on the human body. For this reason, medicine was created to curb the effects of these harmful pathogens in our bodies.

Technology and medicine have come a long way. The best thing with medication is the fact that institutions and governments have seen the importance of medicine in our lives and have invested heavily in clinical trials and research in this field. Since the realization that some of the advancements can save human beings and prevent fatal possibilities, technology and medicine continue to work hand in hand. Let us look at some of the medical improvements that we have so far.

I am quite skeptical about this one, but what do you think about robotic surgery. Well, if humans have made errors, who are robots. At the same time, we should give robots a chance to help out in the surgeries maybe if programmed well they could prove to save so many lives and be more than precise in their procedures.

When performing robotic operations, surgeons can perform sophisticated procedures. At the same time, this could be combined with AR to allow the surgeons to get to know other information about their patients while they work on them.

Technology is awe-inspiring but at the same time poses some concerns and issues to me. So, we have some brain sensors that are plastic in nature and wireless at the same time. These sensors are also bioresorbable mind you. They are meant to enable doctors to be able to know the levels of pressure and temperatures within the brain. My question to you and the doctors especially would be, will there be any side effects of having plastics in your mind?

Have you heard of the term 3D-Printing? If you have not let me take you through some basics. 3-D printers are most familiar with the production of plastic-based products. What happens, this kind of printer produces products by layering on top of others as they are melted, and when they solidify, they end up bonding and forming a solid object. Prosthetics that have been manufactured this way seem to be very accurate and hence comfortable to the users.

Some so many patients depend on transplants to survive, and most of the times if the organs are not compatible with the body of the receiver, then it may not help so much. Technology has it again. We have some artificial organs that are produced by bioprinting, where we have scientists creating the likes of blood vessels, pancreases, and synthetic ovaries. After these artificial organs have been created, they are placed in the body to grow within the patient’s bodies and replace the faulty ones.

You may want to know how your body is doing by monitoring it closely. We now have those healthy wearables that you may put on to track your parameters such as blood pressure, physical fitness, heartbeat, and calories. The significant impact of these wearables is in the controlling and combating of chronic diseases such as diabetes by helping such patients be on the knowledge and also keep fit. The most exciting discovery to me has been the Apple Series 4 watch, which can track your heart rhythms with its ECG monitoring kit.