Many people may know that what medical technology is, but did they ever think about why it is important for us? Medical technology is any tool used to solve medical problems ranging from a simple Band-Aid to a cardiac defibrillator. Some of these tools are massive machines which are used to diagnose the disease or help to cure the illness in human body before it converts into a life threatening situation. An example to this is the ultrasound machine, which scan the body to locate a tumor or cancer. Medical technology provides many options for doctors while expanding the choice of treating with curing the human body. It helps physicians to extend a person’s life regardless of quality of their life and help to treat more people with positive curable results. These vast advancements of technology in medical technology allow many individuals to live longer, healthier, and more of a productive lifestyle.
Medical technology is one of the most important aspects in individual lives from newborn baby to the elderly why? Because it can affect a patient’s health in various ways, the most significant impact is with the use of treatments and procedures. Due to the improved modern technology and medical treatments, these procedures modifies the advance methods of diagnosing many people medical issues.
Medical technology has affected scientific treatments by providing better physician care to those who utilizes newer technology. Medical technology “improves mortality by shorten the hospital stays for both physicians and patients by providing advance machines. It increases the patient’s life expectancy by reducing the disease risk factor, long-term complications of related chronic disease and needs for drugs” acknowledge by (Esmail). In other words, medical technology provides more accuracy, speed and efficiency in diagnosing health problems such as burns, heart attack, heart
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