The future of medicine is here!

[mijan]

emiliglia posted this on her LJ, and I watched... and I was AMAZED.  Seriously amazed.  If you can't handle the sight of a few burns (ie. if you're squeamish), you shouldn't watch it, but if you can handle the sight of the injuries, you NEED to see this. 

The science behind the procedure is so simple, so straightforward... it's amazing.  Using this technique to treat burns would reduce healing time, reduce costs, reduce complications from infection, and reduce pain and suffering.  It would get burn patients out of the hospital faster so they can get back to their lives.  It would reduce scarring from burns.  It would save resources, and make GOOD burn treatment available to more people. 

And on top of that... it's just really fucking COOL.

I've had a couple of second degree burns.  Much smaller than the guy in this video, for sure, but I can tell you that they hurt like a sonofabitch and took a few weeks to heal.  And the scars from both of them were visible for a few years following each incident.  I can still see where they were because I know where to look, but yeah... if that's how long a small second-degree burn took to heal, I can't imagine how bad a large one would be.  This new technique could help so many people.

Comments

[nightshadow-t2.livejournal.com]

Ok. That is seriously cool and awesome.

[zedmeister.livejournal.com]

The video is blocked on Canada "on copyright grounds", bah.

[hdluff4eva.livejournal.com]

Gah. Sometimes, eh? :-/

[avictoriangirl]

One of my friends was telling me about this, but I had never actually seen the vid. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. ♥

[hiza-chan.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just. Wow. That is amazing.

[essie007.livejournal.com]

That is absolutely incredible.

[rae1013.livejournal.com]

That is freaking amazing! He doesn't even look like he was burned by anything stronger than the sun. Wow.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

I'd be one of those squeamish ones, unfortunately. Very nifty to hear about such advances but I'll take your word for it.

[alphabet26.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is just fantastic.

[trigeekgirl.livejournal.com]

That is just COOL.

[gmonkey42.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME.

I just have one question: why is the skin cell solution BLUE? I bet the producer just wanted that so it looks sciencey. Because brightly colored chemicals is more accurate than the clear fluids we use for most science things in real life, right?

eta: Also I bet they could use this to get rid of old scars too - the problem without this is if you cut off a scar, it'll probably heal as another scar anyway. But with this, you can cut or burn off the scar then spray it and it should heal a lot better. There's hope for me!

[linnet-melody.livejournal.com]

There's other reasons to dye solutions. For instance, the person doing the spraying can see how thorough they've been in the treatment, and what areas have been covered.

Re: scar treatment Oooohhhh, that'd be awesome!!

[anruiukimi.livejournal.com]

NatGeo blocked it in Japan, I'll take your word for it on it's awesomeness. ;)

[flwrpwr-vampyre.livejournal.com]

I wish we'd been able to use that on my son when he got his burn. How seriously cool.

[lap-otter.livejournal.com]

That's amazing!

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

Ooo thank you for the video! I will watch it after I've had some food in me (I know, kind of counter-intuitive).

[slumber.livejournal.com]

HOLY CRAP IT'S LIKE THE SONIC SCREW-DRIVER OF MEDICINE. But it only does skin. BUT STILL.

I have so many offensively appropriate icons for this subject. I'll stick with this one instead.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Christ. I want to see more of this!

Re: I have so many offensively appropriate icons for this subject. I'll stick with this one instead.

[mijan.livejournal.com]

I KNOW RIGHT?!? As in, ZOMG. I actually got wibbly and teary-eyed watching this. The sheer amazement. The human suffering that could be spared! The people who could be helped! Just... I'm still boggling.

[seticat.livejournal.com]

This is so *totally* COOL! This would have so many uses. 2nd degree hurts like crap and can leave some nasty residual.

[alpha-helixx.livejournal.com]

This is amazing! Hooray for science!

[jantra.livejournal.com]

...One of the most amazing things I've ever seen. You would never know that officer had been burned. I just sat here with my jaw open. That doctor has developed one of the most amazing devices in medical science. I mean.. FOUR DAYS. Four. Days. I can't get over that. His skin was healed in four days what used to take months.

[almalthia]

Wow, this is amazing!!!!!