Technology Marches On: Traveller Sickbay Tech

[SSWarlock]

Another installment in my off/on "Tech Marches On" posts, here's an example of what could be in an Imperial Navy's shipboard sickbay.

This one's for all of us who first started playing Traveller back in the 70s and 80s. 'Way cooler than the homing bullet, how many of us back then saw this one coming?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16907104

 

[Jak Nazryth]

Wow.
Now THAT'S an ink jet!

Very cool.

 

[locarno24]

Nice.
It's the plasma-deposited coating that's most interesting - the human body doesn't like metal but this way you can have a properly meshed 'replacement bit'.


Other science-fiction (ish) medical tech:
Cranial bleeding detector

 

[Captain Jonah]

Printed bone structure, cloned muscle fibre, vat grown cartilage.

About the only thing left is nerve structure and veins / arteries and we are producing entire organic replacement limbs.

Give it a few years and we may, hopefully, never see a crippled Soldier or accident victim missing limbs again.

We are getting close to that old sci fi joke (much mentioned in Schlock) that if the head survives he is still alive.

 

[SSWarlock]

About the only thing left is nerve structure and veins / arteries and we are producing entire organic replacement limbs.

Actually, printing of blood vessels occurred before the lower jaw.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14946808

Give it a few years and we may, hopefully, never see a crippled Soldier or accident victim missing limbs again..

Only if the companies providing such tech can be convinced to keep the price low enough for it to be universally useful. I hate to think how much the jaw replacement is costing the patient.