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May 2020
12:17pm, 2 May 2020
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Velociraptor
[eL Bee! doesn't lurk here, does he? He's never seen me with my tap shoes on but he has opinions on my singing.]
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May 2020
12:23pm, 2 May 2020
3,545 posts
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Pikelet
Haven't seen him around, unless he's in disguise *glasses*
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May 2020
12:26pm, 2 May 2020
46,328 posts
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Velociraptor
He does lurk here and there sometimes 
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May 2020
12:28pm, 2 May 2020
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Pikelet
 was what I meant I think.
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May 2020
12:37pm, 2 May 2020
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westmoors
I was meant to be running a marathon tomorrow 
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May 2020
4:42pm, 2 May 2020
3,163 posts
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Neilio
Hi Folks
Welcome to the April Roundup of the greatest thread on Fetch. It simply has the best Fetchies on it
This month, in tribute to the wonderful service that the NHS provides us, not just in the current times, but always, whether there is a global pandemic or not, I thought I would take you through some of the medical inventions that changed the world.
The target for the end of April if you are aiming for the 1500 line this year was 495.9 miles, so the closest one to it was Velociraptor - Congratulations!
There are some cracking mileages already ran this year, but well done to all of us in getting out the door, even in these current crazy times.
First up is the medical thermometer:
Thermometers are so ubiquitous today yet it has still not been determined concretely as for who invented the device. Gabriel Fahrenheit first invented the mercury thermometer in 1714 which is still in usage today, although the instance of a device to measure temperature was invented by Galileo in the late 1500s. It was based on the principle that a liquid’s density changes with respect to its temperature. Nowadays, its almost unheard of but it was the forerunner of all these new fangled ones.
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Pompey Paul 673.49
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The Stethoscope:
Before stethoscope was invented, doctors would listen to their patient’s heartbeats by putting their ear on to their chests, a quite crude and inefficient method. For instance, if there was considerable insulation between the actual heart and exterior of his chest in the form of fat, this method failed. Exactly, one such situation was faced by French physician René Laënnec, when he couldn’t accurately judge the heart rate of one of his patients on account of too much fat on him. He invented the ‘stethoscope’ as a wooden trumpet-shaped tube that amplified sounds coming from lungs and heart. That principle of sound amplification hasn’t yet changed to date.
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Richard-M 589.98
Fordyboy 588.47
jennyh 583.88
benno 575.03
jabberknit 571.79
bonners 571.3
Batmansdad 571.23
Oranj 567.81
Pixxy 566.66
mole-thing 565.44
Anna Bomb 563.98
NavyAl 558.65
mikep 548.38
Cardiac Pacemaker:
This milestone invention was the fruit of two Australian scientists’ labor, Mark C. Hill and physicist Edgar H. Booth in 1926. The prototype was a portable set up consisting of two poles, one connected with a salt solution soaked skin pad and the other to a needle that was inserted into the patient heart chamber. Despite such a crude design they both successfully brought back to life a stillborn baby. Today the pacemakers are much more sophisticated with an average battery life of 20 years.
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Dillthedog 540.12
westmoors 537.24
alfazenna1 535.65
Jigs 535.35
Smoggy 524.69
rf_fozzy 520.6
Vancouver Jogger 519.81
IanS 517.94
tom1729 509.12
Cerrertonia 501.73
Velociraptor 496.17
mascott514 491.1
wAckie Racer 490.25
Hoaxster 468.54
CT scanner and MRI:
X-Ray’s discovery led to a surge in the efforts to search for methods to access even more details without cutting open a body. This subsequently led to the invention of the CT scanner. Its commercial version was invented by Dr. Godfrey Hounsfield who received a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1979. This device was able to display multiple layers within multiple X-ray images. Soon after, Dr. Raymond V. Damadian invented a technique to differentiate between cancerous and normal cells using nuclear magnetic resonance which later was improved and called MRI.
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StuartM 428.9
Joopsy 413.46
Cluaran 413.39
JAPMitch 407.47
Nearly Last 397.63
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The Cardiac Defibrillator:
Defibrillation of the heart isn’t a very recent concept, it has been known for decades, but its introduction into clinical setting was brought about by Claude Beck when he successfully defibrillated a young boy’s heart during surgery. Today, with the advent of portable defibrillators help save millions of lives from the brink of death around the world. If defibrillated within the first minute of collapse, the victim's chances for survival are close to 90 percent. For every minute that defibrillation is delayed, survival decreases by 7 percent to 10 percent. If it is delayed by more than 10 minutes, the chance of survival in adults is less than 5 percent.
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Son of a Pronator Man 241.33
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AJM 215.45
Neilio 206.35
Maclennane 202.53
VicMcIntyre 180.37
Toks 178.56
Garfield 165.55
Bez-head 141.01
Psimon 125.02
Well done folks.
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May 2020
5:15pm, 2 May 2020
3,548 posts
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Pikelet
Excellent round up Neilio. Who'd have thought the pacemaker dated back to 1926!
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May 2020
5:15pm, 2 May 2020
46,338 posts
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Velociraptor
Many thanks, Neilio And a secret target-hitting competition win for me too
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May 2020
5:42pm, 2 May 2020
34,102 posts
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DocM
smashing and great to be up there with the thing you stick up a bum
thanks Neillio
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May 2020
6:19pm, 2 May 2020
12,634 posts
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Garfield
Nice to know more about defibrillators...seeing I'm qualified to use one! Thanks for the roundup, Neilio.
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