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-- Research scientists at the Micro and Nanotechnology
Laboratory in Oslo have developed a flow metre with
fluid channels thinner than a strand of hair. The new
device controls that patients receive the correct dosage
of medicine.
The new invention is a micro-technological
control instrument that can measure medicine flows.
The active components in the sensor are only a few
thousandths of a millimetre thick and the tiny device
can measure liquid amounts of less than one-millionth
of a litre.
The invention means much safer
dosing for patients reliant on a continual supply
of medicine from medicine pumps, such as patients
with cerebral palsy. When the medicine pumps are surgically
inserted under the skin, small volumes of muscle relaxant
medication can continually be released by the spinal
cord to control spasms. Cancer patients can use a
portable morphine pump for pain relief, while diabetic
patients can have the pleasure of a medicine pump
for round-the-clock insulin dosing.
The tiny invention has already
generated considerable attention with senior scientist
Liv Furuberg fielding business enquiries from three
international medical equipment producers.
Reference URL
http://www.sintef.no
For further information, please
contact:
Liv Furuberg
SINTEF Oslo
liv.furuberg@sintef.no
+47 22067587
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