{"id":184670,"date":"2024-03-09T02:45:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/novel-device-for-stomach-complaints-is-successful-in-human-trial"},"modified":"2024-03-09T02:45:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:45:31","slug":"novel-device-for-stomach-complaints-is-successful-in-human-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/novel-device-for-stomach-complaints-is-successful-in-human-trial","title":{"rendered":"Novel device for stomach complaints is successful in human trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-device-for-stomach-complaints-is-successful-in-human-trial.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An endoscopic mapping device, developed over the course of a decade by scientists at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, consists of an inflatable sphere covered in sensors, delivered down the esophagus and able to measure electrical activity in the gut.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way, abnormal heart <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/electrical+signals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical signals<\/a> can cause serious heart problems, research has found faulty bioelectric gut waves can lead to stomach pain, nausea, vomiting and bloating.<\/p>\n<p>But often doctors can\u2019t find out what the problem is. That\u2019s because gut electrics aren\u2019t nearly as strong or as easily measured as heart waves; without surgery it\u2019s hard to know if someone has a so-called \u2018dysrhythmic\u2019 gut\u2014and if so, where the problem is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An endoscopic mapping device, developed over the course of a decade by scientists at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, consists of an inflatable sphere covered in sensors, delivered down the esophagus and able to measure electrical activity in the gut. In the same way, abnormal heart electrical signals can cause serious heart problems, research has found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184670","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}