{"id":184593,"date":"2024-03-09T01:58:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/shape-shifting-ultrasound-stickers-detect-post-surgical-complications"},"modified":"2024-03-09T01:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:58:47","slug":"shape-shifting-ultrasound-stickers-detect-post-surgical-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/shape-shifting-ultrasound-stickers-detect-post-surgical-complications","title":{"rendered":"Shape-shifting ultrasound stickers detect post-surgical complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shape-shifting-ultrasound-stickers-detect-post-surgical-complications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers led by Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new, first-of-its-kind sticker that enables clinicians to monitor the health of patients\u2019 organs and deep tissues with a simple ultrasound device.<\/p>\n<p>When attached to an organ, the soft, tiny sticker changes in shape in response to the body\u2019s changing pH levels, which can serve as an <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/early+warning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">early warning<\/a> sign for post-surgery complications such as anastomotic leaks. Clinicians then can view these shape changes in real time through ultrasound imaging.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, no existing methods can reliably and non-invasively detect anastomotic leaks\u2014a life-threatening condition that occurs when gastrointestinal fluids escape the digestive system. By revealing the leakage of these fluids with high sensitivity and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/high+specificity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high specificity<\/a>, the non-invasive sticker can enable earlier interventions than previously possible. Then, when the patient has fully recovered, the biocompatible, bioresorbable sticker simply dissolves away\u2014bypassing the need for surgical extraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers led by Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new, first-of-its-kind sticker that enables clinicians to monitor the health of patients\u2019 organs and deep tissues with a simple ultrasound device. When attached to an organ, the soft, tiny sticker changes in shape in response to the body\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}