Myshkin Ingawale: A blood test without bleeding

http://www.ted.com Anemia is a major -- and completely preventable -- cause of deaths in childbirth in many places around the world, but the standard test is invasive and slow. In this witty and inspiring talk, TED Fellow Myshkin Ingawale describes how (after 32 tries) he and his team created a simple, portable, low-cost device that can test for anemia without breaking the skin.

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[JKES5]

An agile mind, saw a problem and fixed it... Very Bright... Great business plan and a wonderful speaker. I enjoyed the added touch of humor. An eminent man, wonderful!

[akramsar]

in addition to blood oxygen level and pulse rate, he has managed to use the same device to extract the data of haemoglobin, totally non-invasively . that is the brilliance of the invention.

[Jimbolalo]

Man that guy and his crew must be super good at math, they must have had to find every outlier, variable, to able to give precise numbers of hemoglobin and iron without the presence of blood. brilliant.

[vc202]

Great invention, simple, convincing presentation. Very liberating. Is this product FDA approved to be used in the US? I Is it already being used here? If so, where?

[dr34m3r2k]

Awesome work.

[Sandi Welviko]

good job!!

[Masood H]

Fantastic!

[Aditya 'Eddy' Ahuja]

What a legend! 

[Myshkin Ingawale]

Hey Binu - There are similarities with a pulse-oximeter. The core principle is the same, except that additional sensors in the probe and differences in the signal processing and estimation equations also enable total hemoglobin count estimation. So the ToucHb measures total Hb but we have also retained a "pulse oximetry" mode that allows the ToucHb to be used as a regular pulse-ox. Hope that helps!