| During olden times, hospitals and doctors depended | | | | One of the recent and most essential advancements |
| on traditional knowledge, passed down from person | | | | made in medical devices is the portable ultrasound |
| to person, to diagnose, monitor and treat people | | | | machine. With the aid of a smart phone available with |
| suffering from diseases and health conditions. The | | | | ultrasound probe knowledge via USB, this device |
| knowledge that was used during those times was | | | | enables patient data to be sent from remote locales |
| considered to be fact, but it always lacked accurate | | | | to experts through the phone. In turn, these |
| results. Besides lacking results, these processes were | | | | specialists can further analyze the data that was sent |
| slow, taking a long time to provide treatments to | | | | and send back a diagnosis in the quickest time |
| patients. The incapacity of traditional medical practices | | | | possible. |
| to provide fast and accurate results has further led | | | | Prostate cancer, a condition common among many |
| to complications and made matters even worse. As | | | | older men can now be treated with the help of an |
| time progressed, advancements were made in | | | | original method of treating growths on the prostate. |
| medical equipments, allowing for better, quicker, and | | | | This method makes use of microwave pulses that |
| more efficient treatments. | | | | are super focused to dissolve the abnormal growth in |
| Medical equipments, from the time they were | | | | the prostate area. The newly-discovered gamma |
| discovered have been able to save thousands of | | | | cameras have become one of the most helpful tools |
| lives every year. They are a crucial part of medical | | | | for the diagnosis of breast cancer. The Brest-specific |
| operations and healthcare and have been used | | | | gamma imaging or BIGS can provide a lot of help in |
| extensively from hospitals to clinics, all around the | | | | detecting cancer cases, which often go undetected. |
| world. These medical apparatus and devices are very | | | | Another important advancement made is the idea of |
| crucial in the diagnosis, monitoring or treatment of | | | | using microwave in treating certain forms of cancer. |
| medical conditions. Without them, the detection and | | | | This technology involves the use of a skinny needle |
| treatment of a certain medical conditions are | | | | which is inserted into a tumor that has been found to |
| compromised. | | | | be cancerous. The needle gives off hot microwaves, |
| In recent years, there had been major | | | | causing cancer cells to die after a while. Surgeries will |
| advancements made in medical equipment. The | | | | soon be conducted even without the physical |
| discovery of modern computers has helped a lot in | | | | presence of a doctor with the introduction of robotic |
| the technological advancements that were done in | | | | surgeries. These robotic surgeons will be outfitted |
| these modern medical devices. These technological | | | | with an artificial intelligence (AI) program, including 3D |
| breakthroughs cover a wide array of medical field | | | | ultrasound imaging, enabling these robots to conduct |
| and treatment including cardiology, neurology, | | | | simple surgical by itself. |
| gynecology and reproductive health among others. | | | | |