Using light to look inside the body
"The problem addressed in this article arrived in the form of a challenge from a national laboratory: Can you solve the problem of inserting an intervenous (IV) needle in a critically injured patient at night? This issue had been an active area of research but seemed intractable to the many app...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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[New York] :
Knovel,
©2010.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 1613440928 9781613440926 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (some color) |
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| Summary: | "The problem addressed in this article arrived in the form of a challenge from a national laboratory: Can you solve the problem of inserting an intervenous (IV) needle in a critically injured patient at night? This issue had been an active area of research but seemed intractable to the many approaches attempted. An obvious approach was to use a light source such as a flashlight to highlight the vasculature of the patient so that the emergency medical technician (EMT) might see and therefore access a patient's vein. However, that approach had been tried and shown not to be feasible by researchers with a great deal of experience in the field of biomedical optics.1 Fortunately, that work was unknown to us, and so we plunged ahead with the only optical equipment available: a pair of military night vision goggles as the detector and a television remote control as the light source. To our surprise, we were able to see veins when the remote control was pointed at our forearms"--Description at Knovel website. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1613440928 9781613440926 |
| Access: | Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (some color) |