Group members: Pabvitraa and Harmeet
Health Care Innovation Idea: Portable Laser Device to Heal Wounds
Primary Sources (Peer-reviewed)
- Kristo Nuutila,Shintaro Katayama,Jyrki Vuola,and Esko Kankuri.2014.”Human Wound-Healing Research: Issues and Perspectives for Studies Using Wide-Scale Analytic Platforms”. Journal of Advances in Wound Care, March 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955962/
The authors of this article are Kristo Nuutila, Shintaro Katayama, Jyrki Vuola,and Esko Kankuri. They are all professionals in their respective scientific fields around the world. Mary Ann Liebert is the primary independent publisher of this journal. This company, Many Ann Liebert Inc., publishes a wide array of worldwide scientific, technical, and medical reports in their peer-reviewed journals and books. They discuss biotechnology, biomedical research, public health, technology and engineering and much more.This article focuses on the importance of quickly healing wounds and how critical it is to avoid infection. The process of healing a wound is incredibly complex and often times leaves the wound exposed to diseases and when coupled with a person’s physical health could sometimes prove fatal. The article also discusses ways to test new techniques in an ethical way using animals with similar skin to humans. This source would be helpful in providing us with a reason for our innovation, while also giving us a proven practical way to test our idea.
- Sorg H,Tilkorn D.J,Hager S, Hauser J and Mirastschijski U.“Skin Wound Healing: An Update on the Current Knowledge and Concepts” European Surgical Research Journal. 2017;58:81-94. https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/454919
The authors of this article are Sorg H,Tilkorn D.J,Hager S, Hauser J and Mirastschijski U, who all belong to different surgical departments around the world. Karger Publishing published this article found in the European Surgical Research Journal. This journal provides relevant information on various fields of medicine that supports new drugs or innovations. The Editor in Chief is B. Vollmar Rostock who specializes in experimental surgery and has received many awards for her scientific research. This article discusses the need for a medical innovation to improve our bodies wound healing process and it delineates the steps the body takes to heal itself while maintaining homeostasis. This source gives a much more technical explanation of the body allowing us to engineer our idea with more knowledge. Additionally, current research being published about this topic is mentioned giving us a accurate and up to date view. This source can be used for fact checking based on the past research, and can use biological information to support the laser cauterizer.
Popular Media Source:
1.2014.Rose Pastore.”How a simple New Invention Seals A Gunshot Wound in 15 Seconds”. Popular Science, February 3.
https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/how-simple-new-invention-seals-gunshot-wound-15-seconds
The author of this article is Rose Pastore who has published many scientific articles particularly about space, including one about testing medical devices for astronauts. The article was published by Popular Science, an online magazine, containing articles about science and technology, which has received many awards. This source talks about how difficult and painful it is for a patient when pressure is applied to an artery in order to seal up a gunshot wound. Gauze can only go so far, so a start-up in Oregon proposed an idea for a portable injection in which little sponges are used to close up a wound. After testing animals and then receiving a grant to continue the research they made a new sterile lightweight product. This article shows how others had this idea, but implemented the healing process with different material. They have not tested it in the battlefield yet, so it will be interesting to see the results.
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