iKnife ... can confirm tumour in 3 seconds. Intelligent Knife or iKnife as it is called ... is a surgical knife which can accurately detect a cancerous tissue ... as a surgeon cuts through it. According to a study published in the US Journal Science Translational Medicine ... diagnoses made with iKnife over 91 human patients were found to be extremely accurate. In this process mass spectrometry is used to determine the smoke given off by the evaporating tissue. Since the results are accurate and fast ... this will definitely help the doctors to take timely decisions. Current techniques which are used involves sending of the removed tissue to a pathology lab for analysis .... which is costly as well as very time consuming. Up til now there is no other technology to assist the surgeon to tell that they have completely removed a tumour or not. However, the iKnife takes only 3 seconds resulting in what the tissue contains, means no waiting time and hence it reduces the amount of time the patient spends in the operation theatre. Well ... all said .... the knife is more than expensive. Apart from its hefty cost the device is yet to prove itself in real world practise. According to researchers ... the cost can be dealt with, by the hospitals by downsizing their pathology departments and reducing staff time spent in surgery. The iknife would certainly help surgeons and patients ... to avoid countless trips to the operating room, Stephanie Bernik , Chief of Surgical Oncology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York ... has said, and found the study very impressive. commonproblemsandsolutions.blogspot.in/2013/07/iknife-can-confirm-tumour-in-3-seconds.html
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 07:50:02 +0000