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| May 15 @ 2:30 PM (Thursday) |
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| Title: |
TRANSCUTANEOUS ACOUSTIC PALPATION (TAP) FOR LOCALIZING SOURCES OF PAIN
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| Presenter: |
Pierre Mourad
APL-UW Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound
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| Abstract: |
Pain is a frequent presenting symptom of numerous medical conditions. An estimated 76.5 million Americans (26% of adults) annually suffer from pain that lasts more than 24 hours, costing approximately $100 billion/year in direct medical, direct non-medical and indirect costs. Although pain plays an important role, often being the first alert that something is wrong, it can often also be nonspecific, with neither the history nor the physical examination being able to pinpoint the peripheral anatomic structure(s) responsible for the generation of pain. Along with my colleagues from the Departments of Anesthesiology, Neurosurgery and Radiology, I have been pursuing research that, if successful, will increase a physician's ability to localize sources of pain. In particular, based on our research we anticipate creation of a device using intense focused ultrasound (iFU) under image guidance that can identify most anywhere within the body the specific structure(s) causing pain, thereby permitting more effective targeted treatments. Our long-term goal is to change the diagnostic paradigm for patients presenting with pain due to focal and peripheral tissue damage. Our general hypothesis governing this research is that iFU can selectively and safely stimulate deep and focal biological structures generating pain without also activating the intervening, adjacent, and more superficial structures. We have already demonstrated in two animal models with a combination of superficial and deep sources of pain that iFU can reliably distinguish the tender from the non-tender extremity. I will discuss that research here as well as the next logical steps in our research program, whose ultimate goal is clinical trials of the technology.
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Hardisty Conference Center
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| Note |
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