09-10-2010 07:15 AM
re-use in the biomed field is not as easy as it sounds....
not at all.
I would not have a reused cathether in my body... 😮
09-10-2010 07:34 AM
@Ray.R wrote:
re-use in the biomed field is not as easy as it sounds....
not at all.
I would not have a reused cathether in my body... 😮
Maybe so but in the interest of "Brain Storming" we have to entertain the obsurd or risk stiffling our creativity.
So...
What would you have to see or know that would let retract that statement?
What if you saw the catheter run through a gamma ray chamber ground to crumbs and re-made?
Would that be enough or would you have to see it buried for a couple of milenium and pumped back up as crude oil to be convinced?
Setting your question to the side...
I spent a lot of time when young waiting for specialist to look into my ears. At that time the specialist used "re-usable" "Q-Tips" where they where made out of stainless and had a small loop at the end that was used to twist up a cotton to form the ball at the end. The cotton was tossed and the tool re-used.
Ben
09-10-2010 09:42 AM
If virtual instruments can be used for early detection and prevention, then you presumably would reduce waste.
09-10-2010 10:11 AM - edited 09-10-2010 10:13 AM
@Ben wrote:
Maybe so but in the interest of "Brain Storming" we have to entertain the obsurd or risk stiffling our creativity.
What if you saw the catheter run through a gamma ray chamber ground to crumbs and re-made?
Ben
Ooops... sorry I forgot...
Yes, that would probably be fine, because you would first sterilize it and then you would re-build (recycle) the material.
It is made from a polymer, so you could heat it, re-create granulles and then use a (what's that word...) -thinner- to return it to a liquid form and the mold it again.
You'd have to run tests to make sure that nothing could survive the process, but yes.. that would be conceivable.
Why didn't we think of that 16 years ago??
Labview could be used to test the cathethors at the end of the process as well as run the entire process.. and to monitor all activities, as well as quality control.
The polymer is some sort of biomer, similar to that which they use to make contact lenses.
So since this is brainstorming, why not recycle contact lenses? 😉
09-14-2010 08:16 AM
Or you could just use LavVIEW to run the laser for lassik. THen there is no need for contacts, chemicals and contact waste.