Dear METME Readers,
Good news is that we are going to have some changes, hope to make METME more useful for you.
Yes, after more than 3 years we decide to redesign, we will have a new look, and more interesting features.
Now, there is also bad news, in fact for us that we will be far from you for several months! While making changes, no newsletter will be published, but we are looking forward to hearing your ideas, and comments.
We will be back with new METME!
Yours,
METME Team

Automatic external defibrillators (AED's) are becoming more common in public places like airports, theaters, and sports stadiums. To be effective, you must quickly find the nearest AED while in an unfamiliar environment, a task that's not immediately obvious when seconds count.

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A device developed by clinicians and students at Johns Hopkins University to move bowels out of the way in laparotomies has been licensed to Seguro Surgical, a Columbia, Maryland company. The Lap-Pak is see-through and flexible, giving you ability to quickly displace the guts without all the towels and sponges and external retractors.
The primary goal for Lap-Pak is to reduce bowel packing time by 50%. Use of Lap-pak during laparotomies ensures interoperability with retractors, facilitates monitoring of bowels, and maintains tissue temperature and hydration.

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Our good friend Dr. Steven Palter has just performed the world's first ultra high definition laparoscopic surgery using the Red One 4K camera. The imagery, at four times the resolution of standard high definition video, was later displayed in all its glory in 3D to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine on a Sony SRXR-220 projector. Using equipment worth over a million dollars, this is truly the clearest view inside the body ever recorded.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is again inviting participants to next year's nanosoccer competition. Designed to showcase micromechanical technologies that might become useful for medical and biological applications, such as microsurgery or fabrication of diagnostic MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), the contest pits external magnetically powered microbots against each other to test directly which are more skilled for various tasks.

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