The Biomedical Technology in the Diagnosis and the Treatment of Diabetes

During October 30th to November 2nd 2006, Kuwait University organized The International Diabetes Conference under the subject " global Aspects of Diabetes". Kuwait Committee of Biomedical Engineers (KCBME) participated throughTechnical papers and leaflets that provided information about the latest Biomedical Technology in the field of Diabetes. It also provided many solutions and methods to improve the diagnosis and treatment of Diabetic patients. These Technology will be a huge benefit if the physicians and medical staff are willing to get trained and updated continuously. Post your feedback if you have new Biomedical Technology that helps in the field of Diabetes and the best way to train the end-user.

Karl Storz GmbH

Because of the fact i don't have much to do i decided on writing a weekly report about the company i am training at, Karl Storz.

Karl Storz began producing instruments for ENT specialists in 1945. His intention was to develop instruments which would enable the practitioner to look inside the human body. The technology available at the end of the Second World War was still very modest: The area under examination in the interior of the human body was illuminated with miniature electric lamps; alternatively, attempts were made to reflect light from an external source into the body through the endoscopic tube. Karl Storz pursued a plan: He set out to introduce very bright, but cold light into the body cavities through the instrument, thus providing excellent visibility while at the same time allowing objective documentation by means of image transmission.
In realizing this dream, Karl Storz benefited from two rather contrary character traits: the unerring meticulousness of the craftsman and the imaginative power of the artist and inventor. Karl Storz was both. As a practitioner and an understanding, cosmopolitan entrepreneur, he succeeded not only in conveying his plans to his employees, but also in inspiring them with his enthusiasm.

With more than 400 patents and operative samples to his name, many of which were to play a major role in showing the way ahead, Karl Storz played a crucial role in the development of modern endoscopy.

KARL STORZ is now presented by ATC in Kuwait.

I.R.C.A.D.

I.R.C.A.D www.ircad.com is the world's best cancer laparoscopy training center in the world, Strasbourg, France. I was in an intensive training course there few weeks back to see how Karl Storz units are being used by the surgeons. I learned a lot by attending different medical sessions and saw how doctors and surgeons tend to feel the instruments they are using during operations. I think it is critical to know what the customers, doctors and surgeons, need in the their daily work. Karl Strorz is a one of two sponsors, The other is TYCO, for this training center. It is really amazing to see the best laparoscopic surgeons in the world at one place trying to develop different systems to improve and ease their work process. Also i think these type of courses are very important to meet "important" people for future references. This course was part of the training i am going throw right now in Karl Storz.
I posted some pictures , enjoy.

The Technology of Neuroscience

Neuroscience has been developed very rapidly during the last few years. The increase of studies of Neuroscience allows to obtaining valuable information of the activity of the brain. These studies lead to design new equipment or features in existing ones to monitor the activity of the brain. For example, latest anesthesia machines have been upgraded with two new features called EEG (electroencephalography) and BIS (Bispectral index) to monitor the activity of the brain during the use of anesthesia on the operation. These features allow also to measuring the spontaneous electrical activity of the cortex of the brain during external stimulation by the sensor of the machine to acquire data to help for evaluating the condition of the patient. In Kuwait, many hospitals have been using the technology of neuroscience as equipment including the anesthesia machines have been upgraded with the neuroscience technology features

Our Engineers are famous

I was reading Alwatan and saw our fellow engineer Ali Shehab talking about Biomedical Engineering here in Kuwait. So take a look and plz leave a comment.

Can Biomedical Engineering provide Assessment and Therapy to Kuwaiti Hospitals?

Biomedical Engineering provides combination of medical and engineering tools to study and to evaluate several types of disorders and diseases such as abnormal walking, abnormal cardiac activity, chronic respiration syndrome and hematologic illness. Also, the biomedical engineer in countries which have advanced hospitals helps in the treatment and the therapy such as using orthopedic and artificial limb principles to treat a patient with abnormal walking or using the tools of engineering to install a pace maker in a patient who has abnormal cardiac activity and etc.
Therefore, the issue of using Biomedical engineering in the assessment and therapy in Kuwaiti hospitals has been raised recently to see if it is applicable or not.

Is Biomedical Engineering up to expectation in Kuwait?

Biomedical Engineering in Kuwait is unfortunately behind although all the financial and technical capabilities exist. For example, The government spends more than 30 million K.D. per year to maintain the medical equipment. I wish if a budget is provided for biomedical research and for developing the education of the biomedical engineers . This is due to the nonexistence of any biomedical department in Kuwait University and to the unqualified curriculum in PAAET. Also, seminars and exhibitions aren't even organized here. However, Our biomedical committee, which was initiated in September 2005 under the umbrella of Kuwait Society of Engineers have organized three meetings including two seminars. I hope that this committee will achieve its goals to develop the biomedical engineering in Kuwait.