Medical devices that dissolve inside patients

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Some very interesting medical news for you scientists say they've developed medical devices.

They do the work they're designed for.

Inside your body and then.

Just dissolved.

Just at what what is it and that's what the crisis -- -- actor is fatty.

He senior attending physician and emergency medicine is vampire race hospital and -- said doctor Patti annually talking about here when it's this medical devices that dissolve come on.

We're talking a very exciting Star Trek like things.

Small electronic devices they call them transient electronics.

That are made out of silicon and magnesium and they're covered in a little -- cocoon.

They -- silk in varying degrees of varying thickness is because the silk is absorbed by the body.

As well as the silicon magnesium so -- -- an area where similar what had a medical device like -- that you're describing -- -- This that it -- -- was -- I mean we can use them for measuring temperatures in measuring different levels of hormones.

Right now we have some devices that we implant into the body I mean you know of pacemakers -- insulin pumps things like that.

But the problem with those devices is they need to be surgically removed once their life a useful life is gone or done.

These things are exciting because you can program them to last for certain period of time months years days once they they dissolve.

They're -- the body absorbs the the -- happen only at -- when -- -- -- -- electronic components have -- it sounds a little -- kind of dangerous wolf first let me explain their extremely small I mean I brought -- a small example I don't have one of the devices but this is.

This is -- -- court.

Which would represent a small size of an electronic circuit board like this.

Which is made out of some very -- -- amounts of silicon and magnesium.

And and the silk and these components get absorbed they dissolve in water.

And the body -- absorbs them and cleared emergency room doctor -- in these Tracy a lot of folks commitment and a lot of different issues and how they're at a DC any respite today well obviously it's a large size -- -- with -- talking a big device okay then that would could be potentially a problem because you'd have high amounts of that the chemical components that make these circuits.

But we're -- a minute amounts that the body can handle.

And an absorbent and excrete is an amazing -- That's in the sense that we do thinner body already I guess you know like a big Mac for example if I'm Canadian medical device that dissolves and that they -- Right there they're extremely small and that the field is wide open an extremely promising to be able to use these things.

And and not have to go back and retrieve them that's a baby ingests them while eating a hamburger at the same time now we're getting it's a completely different -- -- I think wishful thinking -- mark my upper deck and -- it's nice to have you thanks so much they have -- much.

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