RT Book, Section
A1 Christensen, Clayton M.
A1 Grossman, Jerome H.
A1 Hwang, Jason
SR Print(0)
ID 1150326388
T1 Future Directions for Medical Devices and Diagnostic Equipment
T2 The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259860867
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1150326388
RD 2024/04/23
AB Doctors  using  products  from  the  medical  device  and  diagnostic  equipment  (MDDE)  industry  have  wrought  unimagined  blessings  in  the  lives  of  millions  of  people.  Implantable  pacemakers  and  defibrillators  enable  people  with  otherwise  debilitating  heart  irregularities  to  live  normal  lives.  Angioplasty  has  alleviated  symptoms  of  recurring  chest  pain  in  millions  of  people.  Artificial  hips  and  knees  have  permitted  more  active  and  independent  lifestyles  for  millions  who  would  otherwise  be  invalid.  Portable  blood  glucose  monitors  enable  diligent  patients  with  diabetes  to  live  long  and  normal  lives,  escaping  the  devastating  complications  of  their  disease.  Where  conventional  surgery  entailed  weeks  of  recuperation,  minimally  invasive  surgical  equipment  allows  serious  surgery  to  be  done  on  an  outpatient  basis—with  recovery  completed  in  a  matter  of  days.  Electrical  micropulses  from  deeply  implanted  neural  stimulators  in  the  brain  can  cause  the  tremors  of  Parkinson's  disease  to  disappear—and  even,  in  other  patients,  to  mitigate  the  symptoms  of  depression.