Medical Machines...and Stuff

Evaluate the importance of various technologies, including Canadian contributions, to our understanding of internal body systems (digestive, circulatory or respiratory)

We've come a long way in terms of health advances. People have come to develop many new technologies benefit people as a whole. There have been many technological advances in the world today and even notably Canadian contributions have joined the bandwagon. With each passing year, technology in general can only get more complex as well as just plain awesome. But to be a little more specific, the focus on this wonderful blog will be the medical technologies that have since been developed and are being continuously improved.

Have you ever took the time to consider how the (now) considered simplest of technologies came to exist? How about the X-Ray? Sure, it's cool because it's basically showing you what you look like on the inside - literally, but what if it wasn't invented? I feel that this was definitely a great contribution to the medical advances of our time.



From this, scientists and doctors alike have come up with what is known as the Computerized Axial Tomography or better known as the CAT Scan. What the CAT scan does is take multiple x-rays of a particular place of the body and manipulate it so that you can see cross-sectional views and even produce a 3-dimensional image.



There was also the epidemic that was once diabetes. It had once taken the lives of countless of people and doctors were astounded as to how this epidemic could be fix. And along comes a smarty pants named Fredrick Banting, a Canadian doctor. He was thoroughly engaged in the disease and sought to find a solution to the problem.

Through a long thought process and lots of research, Banting was able to come up with Insulin.


Insulin is a hormone injected into the body and it regulates the fat and carbohydrates in the body. If Banting hadn't thought of this solution, then the world would have to deal with thousands upon thousands of starving people, all on strict diets in order not to intake extra fat and carbs.

All in all, there have been many new technological advances in the medical field that we sometimes overlook, as we do live in a technologically advanced age. These new advances are constantly changing and it's amazing how we are able to make and manipulate these machines to do what is needed for the better of the population.

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