Medical technology involves the procedures, equipments and processes through which medical care is delivered to the patient. Medical technology is an advanced technology and has an impact on human civilization. Advances in the medical technology improves the treatment with decreasing the risk. The advancement in the medical technology reduces the errors and protects the patient’s life.
The advancement of medical technology includes, advanced techniques, advanced equipments and discovery of new medicines.
Advanced techniques: Technological advancement in medical care plays an important role to save patient’s life.
- Sensor and wearable technology: Sensor and wearable devices are used to collect the patient data. These sensors are placed on the patients body. These sensors acts as an alarm which sends information to the health care provider. It sends information when a patient fall down from bed, it also gives information if any infection occurs at the site of surgery. This decreases the failure of surgeries and decreases the risk after treatment.
- Telemedicine: Telemedicine uses telecommunication or IT to get medical health care even though we are far. Most of the rural areas do not get all the services provided in the metropolitan cities, telemedicine helps them in emergency cases. Patients in ICU containing telehealth services are recovered faster than patients in normal ICU.
- Pharmacogenomics: It is the study of genetic variations in response to drugs. Tailoring treatment plans to individuals and anticipating the onset of certain diseases offers promising benefits for healthcare efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. Pharmacogenomics helps to reduce the excess healthcare spending due to adverse drug events, misdiagnoses and other unnecessary costs.
Medical equipments: Advancement of medical equipments like diagnosis and surgical equipments reduces the risks and treat the diseases without any risk or failure.
- In older days, neonatal deaths were more due to lack of equipment to diagnose and treat diseases. Now a days advancement in the medical equipments increases the child birth rates. Medical equipments include special ventilators and artificial pulmonary surfactants to treat lungs and breathing problems in infants. These advanced equipments saves the infant’s life.
- Another advanced technology in case of heart attacks. In olden days, most of the people die if heart attack occurs. Later, Lidocaine was used to treat arrhythmia condition of heart and later by pass surgery to treat heart attacks.
Later angioplasty was used to treat revascularization along with stems to open the closed valves. Now a days, better diagnostic equipments have come that detects the abnormal heart beat and drug eluting stents.
By use of advanced equipments, patients life is improved without any risk and the mortality rate was decreased from the past decades.
Discovery of new medicines: Medicines also play an important role in the treatment of diseases. In olden days, there is no medicine for some diseases like cancer and HIV. Now a days new medicines are developed to treat in early stages and control or relieve from symptoms of disease in advanced stages.