Navigation Links
Orthopaedic smart device provides personalized medicine
Date:2/14/2012

Imagine a smart sensor customized to provide vital, real-time information about a patient's recent orthopaedic surgery. Instead of relying on X-rays or invasive procedures, surgeons will be able to collect diagnostic data from an implantable sensor. A study presented at the Orthopaedic Research Society 2012 Annual Meeting in San Francisco outlined this remarkable technology that promises to make post-surgical diagnosis and follow up more precise, efficient, and cost-effective.

"The sensor provides opportunities to make specific and detailed diagnostics for a particular patient and to tailor care based on very objective and quantitative measures," said Eric H. Ledet, PhD, Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

"This highly unique sensor is very small (4 mm diameter and 500 microns thick), is wireless, batteryless, and requires no telemetry within the body. Its simplicity makes it less prone to failure and very inexpensive to produce," Dr. Ledet explained.

The orthopaedic implant acts as a carrier for the sensor. The wireless sensor can monitor load, strain, motion, temperature, and pressure in the challenging in vivo environment. It can be placed into a spinal or fracture fixation implant, for example, to determine the patient's progress.

"For the patient that is progressing well, the information from the sensor enables the physician to determine that the patient can return to work without risk of injury," said Dr. Ledet. "The number of lost days at work is reduced."

It can also alert the physician to potential problems, indicating that additional interventions may be needed. "By maintaining a simple platform, we're able to customize the sensor and make it very, very small so it can be incorporated into a lot of different implants," said Rebecca A. Wachs, MS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. "By changing one small parameter, we can change the sensitivity of the sensor itself."

Dr. L
'/>"/>

Contact: Annie Hayashi
hayashi@ors.org
847-430-5025
Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS)
Source:Eurekalert

0

GOOD

Page: 1 2

Related biology news :

1. New orthopaedic society launched to promote research, use of biologic treatments
2. New smart nanotherapeutics can deliver drugs directly to the pancreas
3. WPI receives $1.2 million to develop smart phone app for advanced diabetes and wound care
4. SmartActions Artificial Intelligence IVR Solution Receives PCI Certification
5. Climate-smart agriculture should be livelihood-smart too
6. Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics researchers
7. NIH awards group $4.5 million for smart artificial pancreas technology
8. Smarter toxins help crops fight resistant pests
9. Caltech engineers build smart petri dish
10. Card Logistics to Auction Smart Card Gaming Technology at Upcoming ICAP Patent Brokerage Fall 2011 Live IP Auction in San Francisco
11. Sea smarts: Scientists reconstruct evolutionary history of mollusks
Post Your Comments:
*Name:
*Comment:
*Email:
(Date:5/17/2013)... and Sustainable Global Logistics Operations) is aiming to cut ... of intermodal loading systems and the boosting of intelligent ... organisations with experience in the logistics sector and in ... and a duration of three and a half years. ... semantic components and ontologies shared by the users, objects ...
(Date:5/16/2013)... Illustrating a commitment to the support of underrepresented ... Research Foundation has announced the inaugural AGA Investing ... Supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and ... helps underrepresented minority students to further their research ... "By establishing this new award, AGA demonstrates its ...
(Date:5/16/2013)... predict the stability of today,s largest ice sheets in Greenland ... years ago, for example when Earth was going through ... a high sea level due to ice sheet collapse at ... that if the world,s largest ice sheets collapsed in the ... modern, progressively warming world. , However, a new groundbreaking ...
Breaking Biology News(10 mins):New logistics services that will cut energy consumption and CO2 emissions 2Underrepresented minority students receive fellowships in digestive disease and nutrition research 2World's biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously believed 2
... stakes of in vitro fertilization, prospective parents and their doctors ... they will extract, attempt to fertilize, and implant. New research ... Island has found a way to see which genes each ... more about how those genes affect embryo development, the new ...
... 2011 -- Directly advertising food items to children worries ... Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association have ... children,s healthy food choices. A new study soon ... explores the relationship between fast food advertisements, parental ...
... Though viruses are the most abundant life form on Earth, ... tiny fraction of the viruses that likely exist. In a ... , researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, Washington University in ... sewage is home to thousands of novel, undiscovered viruses, some ...
Cached Biology News:'Genetic biopsy' of human eggs might help pick the best for IVF 2'Genetic biopsy' of human eggs might help pick the best for IVF 3Study suggests children's food choices are affected by direct advertising and parental influence 2Pitt biologists find 'surprising' number of unknown viruses in sewage 2
(Date:5/17/2013)... MD (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 ... of ezColony version 4.1, a versatile refinement to ... premier software solution, improves its advanced methodical management ... facilities with ezColony 4.1. The network-based platform provides ... conduct effective research. While continuing to emphasize streamlined ...
(Date:5/16/2013)... May 16, 2013 The Stirling ... Global Cooling, Inc., Athens, OH, USA, won the Outstanding ... the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) ... given to one product annually, recognizes the company’s development ... temperature freezer. The award was presented to Global ...
(Date:5/16/2013)... (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 A ... portable models, from Cole-Parmer is designed to meet ... line includes: , The new Cole-Parmer® MS-3400 ... workhorses in the lab. They ensure a powerful ... plasma specimen separation. Their standard four-place swinging buckets ...
(Date:5/16/2013)... -- The registration deadline has been extended until May 22 ... Conference, the premier conference for bioscience financial officers. The ... San Diego Bayfront. "We are putting ... to make sure as many people as possible have ... , Chief Financial Officer of Mast Therapeutics, Inc. ...
Breaking Biology Technology:RURO Introduces ezColony 4.1 – The Versatile Transgenic Animal Colony Management Software 2Stirling Ultracold Ultra-Low Freezer Wins 2013 Outstanding New Product Award at International Biorepository Conference, Sydney, Australia 2Cole-Parmer Offers Enhanced Selection of Centrifuges 2Registration Extended Until May 22 for Association of Bioscience Financial Officers (ABFO) 2013 National Conference -- San Diego 2Registration Extended Until May 22 for Association of Bioscience Financial Officers (ABFO) 2013 National Conference -- San Diego 3Registration Extended Until May 22 for Association of Bioscience Financial Officers (ABFO) 2013 National Conference -- San Diego 4
... be replaced in ten years by transistors based on carbon ... are hoping they have developed a method to control ... limitations, and industry is looking for a replacement. The electronics ... and this means that the development is being fuelled by ...
... A team of Duke University chemists has perfected a ... cheap conductors are small enough to be transparent, making them ... flexible displays. "Imagine a foldable iPad," said Benjamin Wiley, ... its findings online this week in Advanced Materials ...
... June 1 Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA ... announced that Jeffry N. Quinn , chairman, president and CEO, ... 9:10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, June 3, 2010 ... presentation, along with the slides and replay will be available on ...
Cached Biology Technology:Faster computers with nanotechnology 2Copper nanowires enable bendable displays and solar cells 2Solutia to Present at Credit Suisse Future Energy Conference 2
5(S)-HETE-d8 is used as an internal standard for the quantification of 5(S)-HETE by stable isotope dilution mass spectrometry....
No description available in Ensembl. Antigen: Recombinant Protein Epitope Signature Tag (PrEST)....
15(S)-HETE-d8 is used as an internal standard for the quantification of 15(S)-HETE by stable isotope dilution mass spectrometry....
5(S)-HETE-d8 is used as an internal standard for the quantification of 5(S)-HETE by stable isotope dilution mass spectrometry....
Biology Products: