Recreating the Sickbay

Wouldn't it be neat to have a Star Trek-style sickbay including a medical bed and overhead scanner with diagnostics? Researchers at the University of Leicester were inspired enough by the concept that they created a diagnostic bed utilizing thermal imaging equipment designed by space scientists. The idea was to detect blood chemistry problems without taking a blood sample.  

"We are replacing doctors' eyes with state-of-the-art imaging systems, replacing the nose with breath analysis, and the 'feel of the pulse' with monitoring of blood flow using ultrasound technology and measurement of blood oxygen levels," Mark Sims, a professor at the university, told the Daily Mail in 2011.

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