Can you imagine the capsule robot allows doctors to examine a patient’s upper gastrointestinal tract…!!!!!
Swallowing a single-use pill-sized capsule with water, the gastroscopy examination can be completed in just 15 minutes, through a painless, non-invasive, non-anaesthetic, no cross-infectious method. The robot takes high-quality photos automatically as it passes through the body and is expelled through a bowel movement. The technology developed in China is three to five years ahead of the rest of the world.
The first wireless camera pills created a revolutionary new perspective for engineers and physicians, demonstrating for the first time the feasibility of achieving medical objectives deep within the human body from a swallowable, wireless platform. The approximately 10 years since the first camera pill has been a period of great innovation in swallowable medical devices. Many modules and integrated systems have been devised to enable and enhance the diagnostic and even robotic capabilities of capsules working within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The medical professionals & technocrats need the motivation and challenges of creating devices to work in the narrow, winding, and often inhospitable GI environment. Then understanding of the basic modules of modern swallowable wireless capsular devices.
The medical professionals & technocrats need to study a perspective on the future potential of swallowable medical devices to enable advanced diagnostics beyond the capability of human visual perception, and even to directly deliver surgical tools and therapy non-invasively to interventional sites deep within the GI tract.
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