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Health smart
Smartphone apps now allow patients to do everything from comparing health insurance plans to diagnosing minor health conditions. Elly Earls speaks to Talal Bayaa of Bayzat, Mina Abdulla Hamoodi from the Abu Dhabi Telemedicine Centre, and Arthur Dell from Citrix to find out how mobile technologies are making a big impact on patient care in the UAE.
Clean sweep
Keeping operating rooms clean and sterile is a vital process, and one that is constantly being tweaked. Trevor Garcia, MIDSc, director of education at the UK Institute of Decontamination Sciences, speaks to Kerry Taylor-Smith about how to ensure proper storage in an operating theatre that will enable a smooth flow of surgical instruments. He explains why balancing innovative methods in storage, rotation and packaging, with the long-standing traditional methods, are the best way to ensure a successful operating room theatre for patients and staff.
Change of heart
Routine mammograms for breast cancer may also be an effective tool for catching heart disease early. Dr Laurie Margolies, chief of breast imaging at the Dubin Breast Center, explains the technique’s potential new role in female cardiovascular care.
Bad to the bone
Ultrasound is performed to help speed the healing of bone fractures, but a randomised trial reports the procedure is actually ineffective and we may have been engaging in junk science for decades. Dr Jason Busse, an associate professor of anaesthesiology at McMaster University, who led the study, explains to Andrew Putwain how the imaging community should go forward.