I have project to do on optical fibers. I need to interview a doctor. Could u plzz help me (i'm begging u)?

Question

I could not find any doctor to answer these so i thought you could help.
Here are my questions. Feel free to skip any questions. I really appreciate your time.

1. Why should a DR. use optic fibers in their day to day, or during surgery?
2. What are the benefits if any of using them?
3. Who developed optic fiber for use in the medical field?
4. How far will medicine advance to where the need for these is obsolete?
5. How do you feel about using optic fibers in the medical field?

Please i need this badly!
Thanks.

Answer 1

1. & 2. It is the best way to get light and being able to look at something through a very small opening, thus being minimally invasive.
3. It was first developed for communication. Because of what and how it does it (see above) it was recognized as being a natural for this use.
4. As there are always different ways to get a view into the body, but one needs to switch between methods depending on the specific need, unless a direct substitue with better characteristics is found, it is not likely to become obsolete.
5. it is an excellent way of being able to view things that would otherwise be either impossible to observe, or would require major surgery, which is not desireable.

Answer 2

Fiber optic scopes are used in many medical applications. They are used for almost any body orifice, down the nose, esophagus or up the rectum. They are also used in laprascopic surgery.
Fiber optic scopes have a small diameter, so they cause less pain and discomfort than traditional optical scopes, or exploratory surgery and they don't generate any heat from incandescent lamps or bulbs. They are also flexible, to get into those nooks and crannys of the gut and body cavities.
Using fiber optic scoped in medicine is generally called endoscopy. The prefix of the procedure usually tells what is being examined (i.e. esophagogastroduodenoscopy, colonscopy, etc.)

The first endoscope, of a kind, was developed in 1806 by Philip Bozzini with his introduction of a "Lichtleiter" (light conductor) "for the examinations of the canals and cavities of the human body". However, the Vienna Medical Society disapproved of such curiosity. Apparently an endoscope was first introduced into a human in 1822 by William Beaumont, an army surgeon at Mackinac Island, Michigan. The use of electric light was a major step in the improvement of endoscopy. The first such lights were external. Later smaller bulbs became available, making internal light possible, for instance in a hysteroscope by David in 1908. Jacobeus has been given credit for early endoscopic explorations of the abdomen and the thorax with "laparoscopy" (1912) and "thoracoscopy" (1910). Laparoscopy was used in the diagnosis of liver and gallbladder disease by the German Heinz Kalk in the 1930s. Hope reported in 1937 on the use of laparoscopy to diagnose ectopic pregnancy. In 1944 Raoul Palmer placed his patients in the Trendelenburg position after gaseuos distention of the abdomen and thus was able to reliably perform gynecologic laparoscopy.

For diagnostic endoscopy Basil Hirschowitz invented a superior glass fiber for flexible endoscopes. The technology resulted in not only the first useful medical endoscope, but the invention revolutionized other endoscopic uses and led to practical fiberoptics.

Surgery as well as examination did not begin until the late 1970s and then only with young and 'healthy' patients. By 1980 laparoscopy training was required by gynecologists to perform tubal ligation procedures and diagnostic evaluations of the pelvis. The first laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed in 1984 and the first video-laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 1987. During the 1990s laparoscopic surgery was extended to the appendix, spleen, colon, stomach, kidney, and liver.

Answer 3

Why not try contacting a company that makes fiber optic endoscopes for laparoscopic surgery? They probably have the answers to those questions and other info from doctors. They might even give you the name of a doctor who could spare some time to talk with you.