Abstract
Abstract Background An approach to technology development and the current medical practice. Objective To consider the many stages of medical-applied technological developments and its main consequences related to the current medical practice and speculate on future developments. Methods Assessment of historical publications and individual and metanalysis of comparative evaluation of old versus new techniques. Results Documentation of progressive improvement in diagnostic skill and therapeutics toward less invasive procedures along the last decades, since the introduction of the scientific medicine. Conclusion [...]
Highlights
Technology refers to the use of engineering tools, usually instruments, techniques and methods aimed at reaching a problem solution
Humans have evolved with successful application of new technologies – the fire, the wheel, the writing, the press, steam machines, the electricity – that allowed the development of humanity through the renaissance and the Industrial Revolution, and more recently by progressive use of new resources based on scientific computation and telecommunication and cuttingedge technologies
These technology achievements have enabled great progress of humanity, one should not forget that they brought along wars with devastating destructive power, threatening life and planet survival
Summary
Technology refers to the use of engineering tools, usually instruments, techniques and methods aimed at reaching a problem solution. Humans have evolved with successful application of new technologies – the fire, the wheel, the writing, the press, steam machines, the electricity – that allowed the development of humanity through the renaissance and the Industrial Revolution, and more recently by progressive use of new resources based on scientific computation and telecommunication and cuttingedge technologies. These technology achievements have enabled great progress of humanity, one should not forget that they brought along wars with devastating destructive power, threatening life and planet survival. Manuscript received on February 25, 2020, revised manuscript on March 19, 2020, accepted on March 25, 2020
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