Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The chip was found to Find Out Patients Stomach Contents

A drug company has found a chip that can be eaten and know the ingredients in the patient's stomach. The chip is made with the purpose to remind the patient and physician if the patient is not taking medication regularly.

This chip will record the details of which have been swallowed pill patients appropriately. The device is smaller than a grain of sand, and can trigger the transmission of medical information from the patient's body to a cell phone family or caregiver.

The goal is to develop 'smart drug' that can help patients and caregivers to keep track of what pill is taken and when to drink it. This tool can ensure that the complex substances of the drug is able to work effectively.

Lloyds pharmacy companies from the UK intends to sell microchips made by Proteus Biomedical California at the end of this year. The company will test whether patients in the UK is ready to pay to ensure that they or their families taking the medicine properly.

There is a big problem if the drugs are not taken correctly. Anyone who prescribed several drugs to know how easy it is to forget to take medicine or forget to take tablets is right.

According to Gray, the World Health Organization (WHO) has found about half of all patients fail to take the medicine properly. This can cause the patient does not get the full benefit of treatment, or cause harmful side effects. Drugs unused is estimated to cost £ 400 million in almost a year.

Proteus developed technology is based on sensors that can be digested. The sensor consists of ingredients commonly found in foods and is activated when in contact with gastric fluid.

The core of this technology are tiny silicon separating small amounts of copper and magnesium, which effectively form a microscopic battery that generates electrical current when immersed in acidic gastric environment.

This electric current can be fitted typical information to be matched with the individual drugs taken with sensors that can be eaten and detected by a patch attached to the patient's skin. Patches or patch works like the workings of a skin patch on the electrocardiogram (ECG) to record electrical currents on the heart.

This patch is designed to be worn for seven days, including a flexible battery and a chip that records the information and send it with the Bluetooth technology to mobile caregivers, family, or physician.

In the future, the goal is to create a fully integrated system and create information products that help patients and families meet the demands of a complex treatment. We have created a lot of drugs with great potential, but a lot of potential is not realized because the drug is not used correctly.

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