Welcome Everyone!

Welcome everyone, to my blog!

I welcome you with a short animation!

 

Well, I hope you enjoyed the animation.

Recently we've had some updates to how the blog looks, so, I'd be so happy you give you a tour!

Firstly, you can now follow us! That's right; go ahead and click "Follow" or even put your email address in for regular updates!

New sidebar - how about you join?

You can also take a look at the tabs in the header, how about you give them a push? You can like our Facebook page, which is regularly updated with Haemobloggings posts. Perfect for keeping in touch!

Now we even offer more options to respond to the posts. At the footer of each notice, you'll find a selection of different responses, reactions, comments and sharing options. 

Want to respond? Now there's more options!

Awesome!

And don't worry, we're not missing the search bar - it's still at the top, with an even easier way to +1 on your Google+ Account!

I hope you enjoy the newer Haemobloggings.

Keep learning!

- Geeker

Be Back Soon!

Be back soon, folks!

With some neat information about Optical coherence tomography (OCT)!

- Geeker

We're Back!

 It's been a long month and thankfully we're now back and ready to post!

To compensate, here's a recent summary on a video I watched, by the TED Talks.

“This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly”

The concept of bleeding is one of the most significant aspects of care, treatment and even diagnostics in medicine.  For hundreds of years physicians have battled with preventing bleeds and treating severe cases of trauma. For this reason, the idea of an instant bleed-relief gel is absolutely incredible. Joe Landolina (an American inventor and biomedical engineer) introduces TED’s audience to the concept of this fascinating notion by plunging them into the field of war.

He requests for us to imagine being an injured soldier with a severe femoral bleed – and immediately addresses that this fatal wound can kill within three minutes. To make matters worse, the medic’s utensils and treatment methods can take up to five minutes to begin affect, leaving the possibility of death almost inevitable. With this idea accounted, Joe describes the Extracellular Matrix (ECM) and its role in the body; being responsible for healing. He accounts that other products on the market are only two-dimensional functioning on the ECM and does not ‘fit’ into its structure. Yet, his new product, Vetigel made from “small pieces of plant derived polymers” re-assembles itself into the wound and its local tissue – working with the body to clot in less than ten seconds.

Joe proposes that it should be out for release for human use within the “next year” (2015). To conclude, he refers back to the first initial image of the soldier and describes the simplicity of treatment that Vetigel could propose.

The concept is absolutely captivating and completely intrigues all members of the general public, with an interest of medicine or not.

Interested? Here's the video




- Geeker