Hospital and Medical News

December 21, 2012

Measuring skull pressure without the headache
Paris (ESA) Dec 21, 2012
Space research has developed a new way of measuring the pressure inside your skull using simple sound waves from headphones. The device is an effective early-warning system for patients recovering from head injury or brain surgery. Just like blood pressure, our bodies control the fluid pressure around the brain to cushion it from hitting the skull. Astronauts rely on their body's pressure control system to regulate fluid build-up in orbit, so space agencies are keen to understand how it works and ... read more

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