Medical Supplement: Pitching Medical Marvels

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Engineers Pitch Medical Marvels with Motion Systems
From the world's most sophisticated prosthetic to a robotic 'inch worm' for heart surgery, engineers are harnessing motion systems for medical innovation. Full Story

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Portable Medical System Improves Treatment for CO Poisoning
The initial treatment for carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning involves giving patients 100-percent oxygen until they can be placed into a hyperbaric chamber. However, a treatment developed in the 1920s produced significantly better results by using a fixed mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide instead of just pure oxygen. Full Story
Meet Your Robot 'Pharmassistant'
They call it RDS ROBOTx and it's definitely not your corner drug store. Innovation Associates has designed a highly-synchronized motion system that can fill up to 5000 prescriptions per day. Full Story
Getting Started in Medical Design Veteran medical designer Ted Kucklick of Cannuflow gives his views on the essential steps in developing products for one of the OEM's fastest-growing - and toughest - markets. Full Story
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Engineers Pitch Medical Marvels with Motion Systems
Portable Medical System Improves Treatment for CO Poisoning
Meet Your Robot 'Pharmassistant'
Getting Started in Medical Design
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