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Article: Real-time monitoring of transplant organs described.
- Article from:
- Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week
- Article date:
- May 2, 2004
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2004 MAY 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Human organs deteriorate rapidly without free-flowing blood. The condition, known as ischemia, can be a problem during surgery or the transport of graft organs. The answer from a project called MICROTRANS is a small silicon needle with multiple sensors, capable of continuously measuring the electrical impedance of tissues.
Heart surgeons carefully monitor a beating heart on an electrocardiograph. But if they need to artificially stop the heart during a procedure, these measurements may be lacking for as long as 30 minutes.
In the MICROCARD project, an earlier project funded under the European Commission's ESPRIT ...