Disposcope: The New Global Revolution in Endoscopy

Intrusive medical treatment for both patient and the surgeon administering it could change dramatically when Taiwan's Dr. Fair Chang's Disposcope hits the global market. "A whole new era could open,"says the inventor Chang himself. It's a brand new product and ready to go, the first of its kind for modern medicine. No idle boast either because after intensive research in the world of medicine and international patents, the good physician turned inventor and manufacturer found nothing like it. "No one seemed to have thought of it before. Up until now if a doctor wanted to examine a patient's throat he had to use a wooden compressor and what he saw the patient couldn't. But now both the Doctor and the patient are able to see the damage"he says in a rather down to earth way. But then that's the way he explains the features and benefits of his Disposcope in the language any good medical sales or marketing rep will understand. With its 2.4GHz wireless analogue video transmission and small 4.3 mm camera head, so tiny it hits the spot quite literally in difficult cases of tracheal intubation-"that's when a tube is inserted into an external or internal orifice of the body"he interpolates - or for use with children. The Disposcope though could be practically indispensable when patients are unable to breath naturally under general anesthesia, when patients in shock stop breathing spontaneously or need mechanical ventilation for breath ?as in those with pneumonia and asthma. Also for patients with heart and circulatory problems or with injury caused by increased intra cranial pressure. What makes it so unique however is that apart from its compact, light, portable features and flexible by pass memory metal tube, it is cheap enough to be used only once and "single use avoids cross infection"Chang stresses. And then there's real time video output that displays a patients internal (in vivo) condition and helps the doctor avoid blind insertion and the oral bleeding that could result from this kind of medical procedure. "Apart from its compact, light, portable features, it is cheap enough to be used only once and avoids cross infection" Specialized in internal medicine, Dr. Chang, who once owned the private Jingmei General hospital on the outskirts of Taipei city, is a perfect personification of a modern man of medicine and technology, a front-runner in Taiwan's advancing biotech industry. "I stopped my medical practice"he said, "and got involved in electronics and bio tech."His decision at the time might have come as a shock to many compatriots in the field but early professional skepticism has turned to praise. The results of his work speak for themselves. "At that time, they thought I was something of a freak but when I began to design something with a serious medical purpose in mind, folks began to understand?he said and goes on to quote that well known English proverb with a small variation: "a prophet is not without honor in his own country - until of course he's successful in the market place." And the research continues apace. After optic compressors and the Disposcope an electronic Stethoscope is in the works. "It is nothing very special but will greatly help cardiologists and the general practitioner in their examination and analysis of heart murmurs." Some one hundred cardiac specialists, Chang said, had been invited to assemble 20,000 thousand case based data on heart murmurs for analysis and comparison. At present it is difficult to analyze or examine a heart murmur but with Dr. Chang's stethoscope this problem will become something of the past. A doctor will be able to hear the sound of the heartbeat that is transferred to a monitor and computer on a given radio frequency. The computer begins to analyze, cross - reference with the date base and inform the Doctor on the patient's heart condition. In this way too Cardiologists are in a mNike React Element 55