"No one has ever looked at treating lungs with ultrasound," bioengineering professor Shahram Vaezy told SpaceRef.com. "The results are really impressive," he added, but the technique is not yet being tested on humans.
No longer merely a diagnostic tool, ultrasound is being used to develop bloodless surgery techniques requiring no scalpels, allowing invisible rays to heal injuries. The focused beams create an extremely hot spot in the tissue, heating the blood cells until they cauterise the wound without generating heat through the surrounding tissue as a laser would.
"You can penetrate deep into the body and deliver the energy to the bleeding very accurately," Vaezy explained, Tests on the lungs of pigs showed that the ultrasound could seal injuries in under two minutes.
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What's up?
I just saw Superbad again for the 2nd time, it was much funnier the second time around. I laughed my ass off both times, but this time I was able to see the jokes coming, and was able to laugh before they dropped.
It was great, I related to much of it haha.
Beat Kirby for the NDS, it had amazing art, grade A, and was funny. The whole story is that one day Kirby was about to eat his strawberry short cake when some evil mice steal it. He fights his way through armies in order to get it back. Amazing little guy. It was a pretty easy game to beat but fun as hell. I look forward to the new zelda game and the ninja gaiden games for the NDS.
New semester starts on Monday, hopefully I can get into the classes I need and concentrate. It is going to be a tough one. Biology, Physics, and Organic Chemistry.
Oh yeah and Super Monkey Ball for the Wii is awesome and incredibly hard.
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Got an A in chem2, it was even harder than chem1, and I was seriously close to getting a B. I almost developed an ulcer after I took the final exam yesterday, waiting in anticipation to find out my grade. It was a huge relief. I plan on going to the beach this weekend with some friends, and then getting ready for the Fall semester.
Hell yeah!
Oh and Brothers in Arms for the Nintendo DS is the most amazing ds game I've yet to play.
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Better by Atul Gawande
his 5 suggestions on becoming a positive deviant:
1 - Ask an unscripted question
2 - Don't complain
3 - count something
4 - write something
5 - change
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This is a dialog between a Celestial (which is a type of God) and an Eternal (a human endowed with god like abilities in order to protect the Celestials):
Eternal: Why did the other celestials put you to sleep?
Celestial: You wouldn't understand.
Eternal: TRY me.
Celestial: No. There are concepts you have no referent for.
Eternal: I'm pretty bright.
Celestial: Can you explain Democracy/Tyranny/Comedy to a bacterium? Try explaining the concept of the holy trinity to a blade of grass. They are concepts they...
Eternal: ...have no referent for. I get it.
Pick up the comic miniseries of The Eternals by Neil Gaiman and art by John Romita Jr.
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This is what I hope the future holds...
http://actionnooz.com/video/tech/neuros ... brain-tech
Playing video games with our brain waves, or turning the lights off without even having to clap (if you have the clapper) if you are too lazy.
Amazing
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So I managed to get an A in Chemistry 1, it was a tough class and required almost all of my time and attention. I had to sacrifice going to the beach with my friends which was a pretty painful thing to do. But all the hard work, late nights up studying flash cards, typing up lab reports, and early mornings paid off and I got the grade I worked hard for. I hope to keep up this routine and maintain the good grades. I start chemistry 2 tomorrow morning.
I also finished reading a book recommended to me by a good friend, titled "Complications" by Atul Gawande. It is all about the many difficulties that doctors face in today's medicine, where society stands in its decisions, and the imperfect science that it is. It was really a good read and he definitely did his research and provided many statistics. There was a part towards the end about how many times doctors make decisions based on their gut and these decisions are highly variable throughout the country. A patient is more likely to be recommended back surgery in Santa Barbara, California than more conservative treatments in Brooklyn, New York.
I thought to myself, how can we as humanity improve upon this situation. I imagined a futuristic computer system where a doctor could input their patients information, lab results, and diagnosis, and then, like a google search, be shown a run down of similar patients with their treatments received and outcomes in percentages. Today hospitals have closed information systems where patient information has to be re-entered into each different hospital they go to. Medical information is not shared due to hippo laws, protecting patients' privacy. I asked some friends what the need is for this and they said people don't want others to know about their sexually transmitted diseases, or what surgeries they might have had. This is where the obstacle lies I believe. What if there was a way to get through this barrier, either by anonymizing the data, providing false names, or other possibilities. I think the information it provides to doctors across the world would greatly improve the treatment and outcome of visits to emergency rooms.
Next up, I plan to read his next book titled "Better".
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