Intelligent medical devices.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 291, Nº. 6, 2004, págs. 56-56
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Focuses on the development of medical equipment by Intelligent Medical Devices. Out of tragedy came a commitment to make devices that improve health care. In her third year at Harvard Medical School, Alice Jacobs lost her first patient to a hospital-acquired infection. In the face of what she believed was an unnecessary death, Jacobs co-founded Intelligent Medical Devices months afterward to replace hospital technologies that she felt were slow and often inadequate. One machine in development images the blood vessels under the tongue to non-invasively gauge hemoglobin levels within seconds, thereby serving as a possible indicator of acute blood loss. The respiratory tester, which can perform many exams more quickly and cheaply than all the individual tests combined, was awarded a small business grant in July 2003 to help begin commercialization.