Modern medicine: Fiction is becoming a reality

15 years ago, who could think of scanners (scanners) that allowed doctors to 'look' through organs in patients' bodies . Today, there are many things that seem to be fiction are becoming reality.

In science subjects, medicine seems to be more pampered. It's no wonder that its mission is to take care of the lives of people themselves. Other sciences go around 'medicine' to serve medicine. Therefore, research achievements are often applied in medicine first to prepare pharmaceuticals, make 'spare parts' to replace internal organs, transplant electronic chips into people to monitor changes in health. healthy .

Therefore, medicine is a fertile ground for all imagination. What yesterday was considered simply fiction today is the reality of those who wear white blouses.

Cardiopulmonary machine replaces cardiac and pulmonary function for patients in an emergency (Photo: www.nhlbi.nih.gov)

Turn fiction into reality .

About 15 years ago, no one thought that scanners (scanners), magnetic resonance scans, and cleavages allowed doctors to "see" very clearly inside the patient's body from holograms, colors. True colors to 'call' disease even if they have no symptoms.

Going further, after decoding the map of human genes, geneticists are working to determine which genes are responsible, thereby creating a 'health horoscopes' for each person to program for each life.

The anatomists with ancient gold hands probably did not expect that the 'laser knife' miraculously conducted microscopic surgery on very small areas, possibly with the tip of a needle, to remove the early malignant tumors. but not yet spread.

Gene therapy.(Artwork from www.em1.molmed.uni-erlangen.de)

Back then, they certainly did not think that the next generation was able to successfully perform laparoscopic surgeries by looking at the liquid crystal display, or through robots to perform complicated surgeries at a place half a mile away from me.

Over the past half century, the miraculous hand of medicine has been able to transplant almost any organ, but only recently has successes been achieved in human organ transplantation. Most notably, about a year ago, a news shocked the medical community: the collective of French doctors had assembled the face of the person who had just died because of the accident, biting her face.

Gene therapy opens a whole new direction: when the disease-causing genes are detected, remove with 'biological scissors' and replace them with normal and 'natural missing' genes, inject 'drugs'. -gen 'on damaged cells for repair.

Meanwhile, electronics is the 'friend' of neurological diseases. Electronic chips are being investigated to replace nerve cells in the brain area of ​​memory, though brain chips are no stranger. Currently, the US has 30,000 people who have been implanted with brain chips to control Parkinson's disease, 60,000 deaf people can hear with a 'implant' acoustics device in their ears, 190,000 patients are being electrodes embedded in their heads to control paralysis . Another electronic device developed by Indiana state scientists helps paralyzed patients to walk normally. Researchers believe that if more powerful and smaller microprocessors, implants will create a revolution in medicine.

Future futurists have boldly predicted that, in the very near future, medical advances may interfere with any risk of human life.

. Fiction is about to materialize

It is difficult to make a clear distinction between what is fiction and what is realistic, because the time for a fictional thing to become reality has become too short. To make it easier to imagine, please look at the body of an 'electronicized' person to know what is being done silently in the laboratory, whether or not it will be 'everyday'.

- Remember the memory : For people with confusion, Alzheimer's dementia, but in old age, most people suffer. The glass connects to a data warehouse containing familiar faces of patients. When a facial expression appears in the vision, immediately the glasses compare and whisper into the person's ear.

- Artificial retina : Patient carries a camera connected to a pair of glasses. This camera transforms the image into rays to send to the artificial retina - a tiny electronic mealybug in the eye, turning light signals into nerve signals.

Artificial skin is currently being studied in the laboratory (Photo: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft / Sciencedaily)

- Smart tape : Equipped with capteur (receiving and analyzing signals), a piece of smart tape affixed to the skin can detect infectious substances on the skin surface, and immediately it turns into an electric current with certain characteristics sent to a computer. The machine compares the current with the memory data, determines its name and proactively tells your healthcare provider, that you are being attacked by an enemy.

- Electronic tongue : This strange 'tongue' is presented in the form of a tablet on your tongue, which is essentially a 'chemical capteur'. It creates a good taste of the dishes, especially useful for people who are fed with anorexia, loss of appetite and children who are lazy to eat and grow slowly.

- Animal organ transplant : Tibetan animals with genetic similarities with humans such as monkeys and pigs can be replaced successfully for patients with 'broken' organs' to repair ' more. There are also ways to overcome the problem of spreading diseases from animals to people.

- Skin texture : Only 1cm ² human skin is needed, scientists can grow into 1m ² of new skin without being eliminated by the body. This is a turning point in treating people with severe burns, returning the skin as it was before the accident.

- Artificial red blood cells: The first experiments to produce red blood cells from . transgenic tobacco plants opened new perspectives for hematology and provided blood to the injured. Human blood for emergency patients is almost always lacking in all hospitals and blood banks.

- "Korean" biology : Farewell to sewing thread. The surgeon now has the ability to 'weld' the edges of the wound with the laser beam. This technique is primarily used in cardiovascular and urinary surgery. The physicians directed the laser through the internal camera and 'soldered' remotely. Meanwhile, with small wounds, doctors use 'glue' made from the patients' own tissues.

- Knee and hip joints : Previously fake bone sections made of titanium and other metals will gradually be replaced by ceramic 'colleagues', much longer life expectancy. Good news for sports athletes, especially players, who are prone to bone injuries.