TED 2005
TED prize 2005 Robert Fischell: My wish: Three unusual medical inventions (script)
Summary
The speaker who is an inventor explains about his three inventions. And then, he tells us his three wishes.
It's thought that in developed countries, medical technologies are pretty high. However, the response to acute myocardial infarction is quite late. It's because 75 percent of the patients who go to an emergency room with chest pains don't have AMI: acute myocardial infarction. They're not taken very seriously. It takes more time to get their electrocardiograms of the heart and brain. When they see a doctor, their heart muscle has died.
1) A device he invented is used by inside a person. When the person has a blockage, it sends the alarm to external devices which records his/her baseline electrogram from 24 hours ago. It won't take a time to get a doctor.
2) His second invention is a device which an aura of the migraine headaches can be erased. The cause that you get migraine headache is the thing like an electrical impulse. Thus, the equipment creates a magnetic field to counteract that and auras are erased. Then the migraine doesn't occur.
3) And then, he explains that epilepsy can best be treated by responsive electrical stimulation. By placed a device into the cranial bone where the epilepsy seizure begins, it can provide stimulation before the clinical symptoms occur and seizures disappear. It can treat treating psychotic disorders.
He wants especially two devices that can use for the migraine headaches and psychotic disorders to be used many people in the world. These are the new ways to cure patients suffered with them.
He has one more complicated story that is about malpractice litigation. Lawyers should not get from its jury but the patient or spouse should agree not to file a lawsuit even if some failures occur. It doesn't mean to give up the right to trial by jury. The patient and spouse understand their treatment more, they agree to a settlement and it's not necessary for physicians to leave from their jobs. This is the end of all his wish to decrease the cost of medicine.
Words in this story
unusual / rare,
acute / severe, critical,
counteract / act against (something) in order to reduce its force or neutralize it. prevent.
treating psychotic disorders
clinical
cranial / of or relating to the skull or cranium.
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