Recent days, aiding Liberia medical corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army with Chongqing Third Medical University as its main force took the private plane to Liberia to resist Ebola epidemic. The medical corps not only took necessary medical equipment, but, for the first time, took two sets of important medical auxiliary equipment which are jointly researched and developed by XIOPM CAS and its joint-stock company Vivolight Medical Device & Technology Co., Ltd. and are named Model V300 “Projective Infrared Vascular Imaging Instrument”. The said instrument is the global first one that can identify vascular location and depth at the same time, and will help the medical workers to save Ebola patients, improve the work efficiency of the medical workers and relieve the patients’ pain.
It is reported that the medical corps will ahead for the capital of Liberia to establish an Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Diagnosis and Medical Center and set 100 beds to help Liberia to prevent and control the Ebola hemorrhagic fever epidemic.
Liberia is the one country that suffers from the Ebola epidemic most, and the epidemic is very dangerous. There’s no vaccine and effective medical method against the epidemic yet. According to the statistics by World Health Organization, the death rate of Ebola reaches 60%~90%, and the prevention grade is level 4 which is the maximum biosecurity level, and the prevention level for SARS is only level 3. Where giving treatment to the patients, the medical workers, by testing blood, may make effective judgment and exclude suspected cases of Ebola. The medical corps set a special team which is mainly responsible for blood collection and examination, but there exists difficulty in drawing blood from Africans since their skin color is black. Besides, the medical workers wear heavy protection suit, goggles and several gloves, which make it really hard to find the vascular. In such case, “Projective Infrared Vascular Imaging Instrument” becomes especially important.
“Projective Infrared Vascular Imaging Instrument” adopts the principle that hemoglobin in the vascular to near-infrared light differs from other tissues. By conducting processing a series of digital imaging and making original location of vascular showing on the skin surface, medical workers will easily recognize the tiny blood vessels 8-10mm under the skin. Where using the instrument, the patients shall put their arms under the Vascular Imaging Instrument, switch it on, and the vessels will be clearly and reliably showed, whatever the skin color is. The instrument is mainly focus on the patients with weak pulse condition and thick fat layer, the old with poor blood vessel elasticity and children with tiny blood vessel.
Vascular Imaging Instrument is easy to operate and can form clear imaging, locate accurately, and improve the accuracy rate, and plays significant role while giving acupuncture and reducing patient’s pain. It has been put into use in The General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, No. 2 People’s Hospital of Shenzhen City, The First Hospital Affiliated to Norman Bethune University of Medical Science, General Hospital of Kunming, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Gansu Provincial Hospital, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Wuhan Union Hospital and other medical institutions. The instrument is applied to primary hospitals and received good reputation from medical workers and patients. “Projective Infrared Vascular Imaging Instrument” attended domestic exhibitions for many a time, and has been successfully exported to Germany, Russia, Peru, Japan, South Korea, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Norway, Denmark, Columbia and many other countries, and China has reached cooperation intentions with agents from over 30 countries of Europe, Oceania, South America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia so as to realize the export of medical equipment to developed countries.
The said product received good comments from leaders like Shaanxi Provincial Secretary Zhao Zhengyong and China Association for Science Chairman Shang Yong, and won the first price of Shaanxi Division, 1st Shaanxi Scientific and Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition and the 3rd China Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition.
The utilization of Vascular Imaging Instrument for China’s aiding Liberia to resist Ebola will not only help to relieve the patients’ pain, buy time for rescue and improve efficiency, but also protect our medical workers and play an important role in improving reputation of China’s epidemic resisting corps all over the world.
