Technology Saves Lives
In today’s society, many individuals see technology as devices that can be used to talk to their fellow companionships, browse through the internet, or watching TV. There are so many technological mechanisms out there in the world that can save a particular life each and every day. Due to the illnesses and diseases, three amazing individuals took their time to create an object to help others breathe another day.
W.C Rontgen was the first man to ever discover the magnificent usage of gamma rays in 1865. One ordinary day, Rontgen discovered that gamma ray creates a blue like glow that can determine and specify what bone he was looking at. With the help of his wife, she placed her hand underneath a dark elastic paper, and allowed her husband to create the gamma rays to pass through the tissue of her hand to observe her own bones. Since then, every hospital in America uses Rontgen’s glorious invention to save lives. “X Rays” has change the recent decades of this world. It can detect any solid objects that are intruding the body. With the help of “X Rays,” seeking out solid waste, one man had created a mechanism that can monitor the flow of the body’s liquid.
Dr Solomon A. Berson made it possible to see what specific elements that can flow through the blood system including the amount of pressure. Many individuals in America are been helped with Berson’s radioimmunoassay to monitor their diabetes and diseases that can be fatal. Without the creation of radioimmunoassay in 1959, so many lives would be in stake, due to unknowing of materials, flowing through the blood system. So many clinics such as rehab, uses the radioimmunoassay to detect the abuse of drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and other drugs. Thousands of woman each year, are pregnant with their child, while abusing the usage of drugs, putting the baby’s life in stake. Thanks to an intellectual woman, she created a device that can monitor the baby’s health for its own sake.
In 1953, anesthesiologist, Dr. Virginia Apgar invented a machine that examines the baby’s heart rate, respiration, reflex response, muscle tone, and color. This is all totaled into a score, with a 7-10 range of being normal. With a score lower than 3, needs immediate care by doctors. The Apgar scale is not used to determine the baby’s future health, but to save its live within the first five minutes of birth. Thousands of babies are being saved in and every day, due to Apgar’s great knowledge. As bodies are being monitored by X Rays, Radioimmunoassay, and Apgar Scales, a man created a corporation to put a great resource into the body to save individuals with the loss of blood loss.
An American Doctor, Charles Richard Drew took his time to figure out a possible way to store blood plasma to be transferred into a human being without their body shutting down on them with old, contaminated blood. In the late 1940’s, Dr. Charles Richard Drew finally succeeded by learning how to store blood plasma, and leaning the different types of blood that humans carry in.
I created a short video that explains and honor the four inventors that changed the use of technology forever.
