- Title: VM-457
- Summary: NEW TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICINE: EXAMPLES OF NEW MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY. PROVIDES THE PHYSICIAN WITH MORE EFFICIENT & EFFECTIVE TOOLS, TECHNIQUES, & PROCEDURES. IMAGING TECHNIQUES SUCH AS MRI (MAGNETIC IMAGING RESONANCE), THE USE OF LASERS TO DESTROY CANCEROUS LESIONS & MAKE INCISIONS IN THE EYE, THE DISINTEGRATION OF KIDNEY STONES WITH SHOCK WAVES, & THE EXPANDING ROLE OF THE COMPUTER IN MEDICINE. ARTIFICIAL JOINTS, LASER SURGERY. Advances in medicine
- Description:00:20:10 - DOCTOR GIVES PATIENT CHILD PHYSICAL EXAMINATION LISTENS TO HIS CHEST. LOOKS INTO HIS EARS. 00:20:52 - TEEN GYMNASTS ON FLOOR ROUTINE 00:20:56 - TEEN BOYS LIFTING WEIGHTS 00:21:00 - GYMNAST ON UNEVEN BARS 00:21:03 - TEEN BOYS LIFTING WEIGHTS 00:21:16 - YOUNG WOMAN TALKS ABOUT HER RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS CU ARTHRITIC HAND 00:21:27 - DOCTOR LOOKS AT X-RAY OF KNEE WITH KNEE REPLACEMENT 00:21:41 - CU METAL PART OF KNEE REPLACEMENT. ARTIFICIAL KNEE 00:21:56 - CU METAL PART OF WRIST REPLACEMENT. 00:22:09 - BIO-MEDICAL ENGINEER DESIGNER DESIGNING ON COMPUTER. CU TAPE SPITTING OUT OF MACHINE. COMPUTER ENCODING INFORMATION & PRINTING IT OUT IN THE FORM OF A TAPE 00:22:30 - CU MACHINE SHAPING ARTIFICIAL JOINT FROM SOFT PLASTIC MATERIAL AND ALLOY TITANIUM. PROCESS OF MAKING ARTIFICIAL JOINTS 00:22:40 - ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON WEARING HELMET / MASK PERFORMS ARTIFICIAL JOINT SURGERY. IMPLANTING ARTIFICIAL KNEE, JOINT REPLACEMENT OPERATION 00:23:14 - SURGEON TALKS ABOUT "BIONIC PEOPLE" WALKING AROUND TODAY 00:23:20 - "BIONIC" WOMAN WITH 13 ARTIFICIAL JOINTS TALKS AND WATCHES HER CHILDREN PLAY ON BACKYARD PLAYGROUND, SWINGS 00:24:20 - COMPUTER ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF A BABY'S CRY. FIRST HEALTHY BABY, THEN CRY OF A VERY SICK BABY 00:24:45 - DOCTOR EXPLAINS DIFFERENT CRY MEANINGS 00:24:59 - DOCTOR EXAMINING BABY. USING COMPUTER ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS AT "CRY CLINIC". HOLDS MIC UP TO BABY 00:26:00 - MOTHER LOOKS ON, LISTENS TO CRIES. WRITES ON QUESTIONNAIRE. TECHNOLOGY CORROBORATING WHAT INSTINCT SENSES 00:26:55 - CU COMPUTER ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF BABY CRY 00:27:22 - MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING MRI OF A SKULL IMAGES REVEAL ABNORMAL GROWTH ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN 00:27:52 - CU FINGER PUSHING POWER BUTTON. FINGER PUSHING SET BUTTON. PATIENT RECEIVES AN MRI. NON-EVASIVE IMAGING TECHNIQUE 00:28:27 - TECHNICIAN USING ANOTHER NON-EVASIVE IMAGING TECHNIQUE WHICH USES X-RAYS SEQUENCE OF PICTURES ALLOWS DOCTORS TO SEE MOTION. CU BEATING HEART 00:28:49 - PIXAR IMAGE COMPUTER, 3-D PICTURE 00:29:12 - CU BRONZE SCAPEL DATING TO POMPEII 00:29:25 - CU MODERN STAINLESS STEEL SCAPEL 00:29:34 - LASER MACHINE CIRCA 1986 00:30:12 - OPERATING ROOM SURGEON USING LASER TO CUT CANCEROUS LESIONS FROM THROAT OF A PATIENT 00:30:34 - FEMALE PATIENT GETTING LASER EYE SURGERY. DOCTOR, EXPERT IN OPTHALMIC LASER SURGERY EXPLAINS PROCEDURE 00:31:14 - WOMAN RECEIVES LASER EYE SURGERY. OPTHALMIC LASER SURGERY. CU CATARACT IN EYE. CUTS TO SURGEON EXPLAINING 00:32:57 - DOCTOR TALKING ABOUT KIDNEY STONES. CU X-RAY, DOCTOR HOLDS UP MODEL OF KIDNEY STONE. PATIENT HAVING KIDNEY STONE BROKEN UP WITH LITHOTRIPSEY DISINTEGRATION OF KIDNEY STONES WITH SHOCK WAVES. PATIENT LOWERED INTO WATER TUB. SHOCK WAVE PASSES THROUGH THE WATER INTO BODY. ILLUSTRATION SHOWS HOW IT WORKS. 00:36:33 - CU KIDNEY STONES IN GLASS TUBE 00:36:42 - CU MEDICAL TOOLS INSTRUMENTS 00:37:00 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN DOCTOR TAKING BLOOD SAMPLE FROM A BABY. BABY CRIES FROM PIN PRICK. 00:37:45 - BLOOD ANALYZER MACHINE BASED ON COLOR READING SYSTEM ECTICAN (?SP) 700. COMPUTER ANALYZES BLOOD SAMPLE 00:38:45 - GIRL PUTS MAKE UP ON IN FRONT OF LIGHTED MAKE UP MIRROR. PARAPLEGIC TEENAGER IN WHEEL CHAIR 00:39:33 - PARAPLEGIC MALE TEAM TALKS ABOUT SPINAL INJURY 00:39:55 - DOCTOR EXPLAINS ELECTRICAL STIMULATION IN WORKING WITH PARAPLEGICS. MAKING USE OF POTENTIALLY USEFUL MUSCLES 00:40:09 - PARAPLEGIC TECHNICIAN WORKING ON PORTABLE COMPUTER FOR PARAPLEGICS TO WEAR AROUND THEIR WAIST TO STIMULATE MUSCLES. COMPUTER CIRCUITRY. 00:40:44 - CU PARAPLEGIC TECHNICIAN TESTING HIS INVENTION WALKING UP STAIRS WITH CRUTCH 00:41:18 - PARENTS CARRY DAUGHTER IN WHEEL CHAIR DOWN STAIRS PARAPLEGIC GIRL GETS IN CAR. 00:41:51 - PARAPLEGIC EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM. STIMULATING MUSCLES. DOCTOR TALKS ABOUT PORTABLE COMPUTER THAT STIMULATES MUSCLES. GIRL PARTICIPATES IN PROGRAM. STIMULATING HER LEG MUSCLES. WALKING WITH HELP 00:43:51 - TEEN BOY GETS OUT OF WHEEL CHAIR, WALKING WITH HELP OF WALKER. ELECTRODES IN HIS LEGS. STIMULATE MUSCLES.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1986
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: VM-457