hospitals

Robotic Intubater Makes It Easier To Guide a Tube Through Your Throat

It’s not the most pleasant experience, but patients placed under general anesthesia who might not be able to easily breathe on their own are usually intubated, a procedure where a breathing tube is inserted down into their tracheas through their mouths. Usually a skilled doctor or nurse guides the tube in visually, but students at…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 9

New Bacteria-Resistant Hospital Sheets Can Keep You From Getting Sicker

The hospital isn’t always the safest place; being around other sick people just breeds more sickness. Because as many as 10 percent of patients pick up some kind of infection while they’re admitted, Spanish researchers have developed a textile that can kill bacteria and could be used in bed sheets and gowns. Researchers created these…

Health Leslie Horn Nov 13

Malware Is “Rampant” Across Medical Devices in Hospitals

Medical technology is relying more and more heavily on computational power to streamline the healthcare process. But there’s a problem: computerized medical technology is increasingly vulnerable to malware infections, and nobody’s doing anything about it. In a recent government panel, experts explained how viruses and malware can clog medical devices and leave them inoperable. While…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Oct 18

Wheelchair Morphs Into Bed, Claims Title of Ultimate Work-From-Home Accessory

Transferring patients with limited mobility from a wheelchair to a bed could soon be an easier feat if Panasonic perfects this electric care bed it’s been developing. It transforms from a wheelchair to a hospital bed so that patients don’t ever have to actually be moved from one to the other. It’s also an amazing…

Health Andrew Liszewski Aug 31

The Robot Doctors of the Future Are Coming

Remember how in sci-fi tomorrowland we were promised that doctors would be followed around by robots who knew your medical history by rote and could make sure that nothing gets missed? Well, we’ve woken up in the future because shit just got real. Meet the RP-VITA, or Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant, a…

Health Brent Rose Jul 24

This Incubator Humanizes The Hospital

Childbirth, though wonderful, can also be quite traumatic. That can be particularly true for the parents of premature infants, who often spend several weeks in a neonatal ICU while their children rest in incubators that, while life-saving are typically very impersonal, and serve as de-facto barriers between parent and child. The BabyBloom Incubator aims to…

Tech News Mat Honan May 6

New Hospital Alarm System Shames Smokers into Stopping

There’s no smoking in front of Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Scotland—the sign says so—though nobody really paid attention to it. That’s why the hospital installed a loudspeaker-backed smoke alarm commanding cigarette scofflaws—in no uncertain terms—to cut that shit out. “Despite warning signs telling patients, visitors and staff that smoking is banned in the hospital…

Health Andrew Tarantola Mar 27

This App Is A Panic Button for Animal and People Emergencies

You’re visiting a friend out of state with your cockapoo Curly, and your pound-size chocolate bar has gone missing. Curly has a chocolate mustache and is not looking altogether well. Panic! It’s OK, go ahead. Because a new app called Press Panic provides an emergency-vet-finding, one-button app. Dr. John Porter of Kirkman Road Veterinary Clinic…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Mar 22

This E-Shirt Feels Like an Entire Hospital’s Got Your Back

Embeddable clothing isn’t a new concept , but the idea’s been around long enough that we should start seeing more and more real-world applications, outside of the lab, right? Right. Enter the eT-Shirt. Brought to us by the minds at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, this tech-savvy tank top has a bevy of health…

Health Jack Loftus Sep 25

In the Hospital of the Future, babies were kept in plastic drawers

In the 1950s, Kaiser Permanente founders Henry Kaiser and Sidney Garfield unveiled their model for the Hospital of the Future. The most entertaining innovation was the baby cabinet, where new mothers could find their children stored like pairs of freshly folded socks. [Via Laughing Squid]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 9

How Careless Radiation Treatment Is Devastating Patients

Marci Farber sought radiosurgery to treat a pain from a nerve deep in her head. Today, she’s “in a nursing home, nearly comatose, unable to speak, eat or walk.” What happened? The radiation hit places it wasn’t supposed to. Her story, reported in today’s NYT, is far from an isolated incident, and it speaks to…

Health Kyle VanHemert Dec 29

Would You Trust Robots With Prostate Surgery?

Robots named McSleepy and DaVinci, I might add. I’m not sure I’d trust them with anything other than bed-making and painting, but one chap agreed to go under the knife in the world’s first robotic surgery. Fame has been thrown upon the Canadian McGill University Health Centre for this dangerous feat, though you’ll be pleased…

Health Kat Hannaford Oct 22

How The Recipient Of The First Full Face Transplant Looks

The operation took 24 hours and 30 doctors, but the first full face transplant appears to be a success. Here’s how Oscar, the patient, looks with his new face: https://gizmodo.com/its-happened-the-first-full-face-transplant-5522922 You can click on the image for a closer look. This image was taken during a press conference which marked the first time Oscar appeared…

Health Rosa Golijan Jul 26

It’s Happened: The First Full Face Transplant

The operation took 22 hours and 30 doctors, but the world’s first full facial transplant has been deemed “a success.” In a clandestine operation that took place almost a month ago in Barcelona, a man who’d lost his much of his face in a shooting accident received an entire face—skin and muscles, and as the…

Health Mark Wilson Apr 23

Evict Bacteria With the Cleankeys Touch Sensitive Keyboard

Did you know that your run of the mill keyboard is basically a gigantic apartment complex for bacteria? Gross, no? Thankfully there’s Cleankeys, a keyboard that bulldozes that shit and replaces it with a sleek, sterile touch-sensitive slab. Wiping a standard keyboard with a disinfecting cloth kills about 5% of bacteria. Cleankeys claims the same…

Health Kyle VanHemert Feb 24

Wash Your Hands With Plasma Gas

Soap is dead. Never stood a chance, really. It had a good run, but the age of disinfecting our hands in plasma-gas filled boxes has finally dawned. As the NY TImes has it, several laboratories are working on the technology, which bathes your hand in room-temperature plasma gas to kill even industrial grade bacteria like…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 15

The Xbox 360 Trauma Unit Edition

Microsoft may not see the Xbox 360 as a tool for the military, but as an essential part of your hospital room? Sure. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-refused-to-sell-xbox-360s-to-the-military-for-5467718 Desney Tan, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, shared how Microsoft thinks the Xbox 360 could fit into hospitals. A low-cost PC, the 360 could be networked to share medical records…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 11

Plug-and-Play Hospitals Inflate In Haiti

You’ve probably heard something about Doctors Without Borders (also known as the Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) lately, given their involvement in Haiti. Here, we see the organization set up what they call "plug-and-play" hospitals—self-sustained, inflatable medical facilities. The whole 41 metric ton setup allows 9 tents housing 100 beds to be delivered by air,…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 21

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

In today’s remainders, the big and the little. A big quantum computer simulates a little molecule. A big series of tubes make a big difference at Stanford hospital. And a Big Brother ad makes me a little worried. Quantum Time Quantum computing, like Pilates, is one of those things that sometimes seems to offer more…

Health Kyle VanHemert Jan 12

Finally, Hospital Lighting Reminiscent of a Cylon Base Ship

Granted, the green-tinged fluorescence of most hospital rooms is by no means comfortable, but Philips’ solution, seen here, looks like a straight-up alien probe chamber—or so I’ve heard. The company is testing the implementation of their lighting technology alongside their medical technology in Ambient Experience suites across the world. And luckily, the other 9 modes…

Health Mark Wilson Nov 19

Robotic Intubater Makes It Easier To Guide a Tube Through Your Throat

New Bacteria-Resistant Hospital Sheets Can Keep You From Getting Sicker

Malware Is “Rampant” Across Medical Devices in Hospitals

Wheelchair Morphs Into Bed, Claims Title of Ultimate Work-From-Home Accessory

The Robot Doctors of the Future Are Coming

This Incubator Humanizes The Hospital

New Hospital Alarm System Shames Smokers into Stopping

This App Is A Panic Button for Animal and People Emergencies

This E-Shirt Feels Like an Entire Hospital’s Got Your Back

In the Hospital of the Future, babies were kept in plastic drawers

How Careless Radiation Treatment Is Devastating Patients

Would You Trust Robots With Prostate Surgery?

How The Recipient Of The First Full Face Transplant Looks

It’s Happened: The First Full Face Transplant

Evict Bacteria With the Cleankeys Touch Sensitive Keyboard

Wash Your Hands With Plasma Gas

The Xbox 360 Trauma Unit Edition

Plug-and-Play Hospitals Inflate In Haiti

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Finally, Hospital Lighting Reminiscent of a Cylon Base Ship

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