BIOMEDICINE: Shock Therapy

Numerical modeling of shock waves in biomedicine

We have developed a multi-phase compressible fluid solver that can handle shock waves efficiently and accurately. Using a level set formulation to treat sharp interfaces and employing multi-resolution techniques, we can study complex shock-bubble interactions. In this work, shock-induced bubble collapse interactions near a deformable interface are presented as a model for a simplified extracorp...

New Applications of Photodynamic Therapy in Biomedicine and Biotechnology

1 Laboratory of Photodynamic Inactivation of Microorganisms, Department of Materials Science and Physics, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstraße 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria 2 Department of Dermatology, Eberhard Karls University, Liebermeisterstraße 25, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany 3Department of Internal Medicine I, Paracelsus Medical University and Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK), Muellner Haup...

What is Shock Therapy ?

A prominent theorist of Soviet and East European economics critiques the vision of political and economic processes implicit in shock therapy, defending an alternative, evolutionary approach. The critique of shock therapy rests on both theoretical reasoning and examination of evidence from recent cases. An intensive study of economic change in Poland and Russia since the late-1980s concludes th...

Shock: mechanisms and therapy.

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy

When extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) was administered to the equine metacarpus/ metatarsus, there was subperiosteal and subendosteal hemorrhage, but no microfractures were detected. No damage to the surrounding soft tissues was detected. The principle of ESWT and the acute effects of ESWT on equine bone and soft tissue are explained. Authors’ Addresses: Department of Veterinary Clinica...