2023-06-16 15:43:48
Taryna Navarro, HME Division Manager at Samsung Brazil.
The first emotional moment in the life of an expectant mother is the discovery of pregnancy, but it is the first ultrasound that often makes the moment even more real. The heartbeat, the shape of that little being being formed, in addition to being able to follow the development closely are just some of the countless joys that this technology has provided for people. Anyone who thinks that modern medicine in the 20th century was the great inspiration for the creation of ultrasound is wrong, as this story begins in the mid-1700s, when Lazzaro Spallanzini demonstrated that bats were capable of orienting themselves by hearing.
Almost 200 years later, following World War II, technology begins to gain prominence in medicine and ultrasound has become one of the instruments that revolutionized the segment. One of the pioneers was the American doctor Douglas Howry, along with his wife Dr. Dorothy Howry, and two engineers, Roderick Bliss and Gerald Posakony, who built the first device capable of creating diagnostic images using sound in 1949. Due to technological limitations at the time, the images were in black and white with very low resolution, but still yes, a revolutionary advance for identifying diseases and characteristics of babies before birth.
With the arrival of the digital age, several improvements were implemented in medical equipment and ultrasound was not left out. In the past, it was common to see blurred images, without definition, which even made sense to doctors, but not all patients managed to have adequate visibility when seeing their children for the first time. Current devices can show the fetal face with high-resolution 3D anatomy, with exceptional detail and realistic depth perception. Now, mothers can even see which relative the child most resembles with the baby still in the womb.
Another revolutionary advantage that modern ultrasounds have brought to the routine of pregnant women is the identification of illnesses, possible deficiencies, and other health problems in a much more assertive way, both in mothers and their future children. Current devices include several features and use artificial intelligence to perform tests such as measuring the baby’s skull with cross-sectional views and measuring the growth parameters of the entire body of the fetus. Blood flow, heart rate and other features are analyzed more clearly with 3D technologies that illuminate these body parts to highlight the final image.
Technology and medicine have always been indispensable partners for improving people’s quality of life and the creation of ultrasound and its evolutions will certainly enter the hall of fame of historical landmarks in this segment.
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