Medtech Week 2016

A week full of medtech in all of Europe

European MedTech Week is a week-long programme of events and activities across Europe aiming to raise awareness and create a conversation about medical technology. The 2016 theme was how medtech can support people throughout their everyday lives, from diagnosis to cure. Swedish Medtech and Medtech4Health have been arranging several activities here in Sweden with the first one in Linköping on 13 June and the last one in Stockholm on 17 June. Read more here>>

MedTech West was this year´s host of Medtech Week in western Sweden. On 16 June, eight researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Gothenburg and SP (Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut) presented a small selection of their research within the field of medtech. The interesting presentations were followed by discussions with both politicians and representatives from patient interest groups as well as the academia and medtech industry on how the medtech research can become beneficial to the patients. Even during lunch and coffee break the discussions never seemed to end- a good sign for future gatherings!

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MedTech West professor Paul Hockings in kidney imaging collaboration with his Antaros Medical, Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Astra Zeneca

Determination of body fluids is a useful common practice in determination of disease mechanisms and treatments. Bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) methods are non-invasive, inexpensive and rapid alternatives to reference methods such as tracer dilution. However, they are indirect and their robustness and validity are unclear. In this article, state of the art methods are reviewed, their drawbacks identified and new methods are proposed. All methods were tested on a clinical database of patients receiving growth hormone replacement therapy. Results indicated that most BIS methods are similarly accurate (e.g.  <  0.5   ±   3.0% mean percentage difference for total body water) for estimation of body fluids. A new model for calculation is proposed that performs equally well for all fluid compartments (total body water, extra- and intracellular water). It is suggested that the main source of error in extracellular water estimation is due to anisotropy, in total body water estimation to the uncertainty associated with intracellular resistivity and in determination of intracellular water a combination of both.

Rights to award doctoral degrees gained at the University of Borås

Medtech4Health awards West coast projects

Max Ortiz Catalan, assistant professor at the department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, and the principle investigator for the second of the awarded projects says:

– Our project is about a novel treatment for phantom limb pain using machine learning and augmented reality. The project will be multi-disciplinary; a collaboration with Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Örebro University Hospital, BräckeDiakoni Rehabcenter Sfären, and Integrum AB.

MedTech West congratulates Bo Håkansson, Max Ortiz Catalan and their research team!

 

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