What happens to your body if you’re stabbed? How deep does that wound go? What organs might be injured? And how do surgeons put things right? Professor Roger Kneebone and his team show what goes on – before, during and after surgery. Not for the faint-hearted.
Performances scheduled at 11:00am, 12:30pm, 2:00pm and 3:30pm.
A short film documenting the experiences of patients that have taken part in research in North West London has been recognised as joint runner-up in the NIHR New Media Competition. Produced as a collaborative output between neighbouring arms of the NIHR infrastructure in Northwest London (i.e. the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), NIHR Biomedical Research Unit (BRU) in Cardiovascular Disease, NIHR BRU in Respiratory Disease and NIHR CLAHRC Northwest London), the objective of this film was to promote patient participation by presenting an unbiased report from the patient perspective.
Dr Carol FitzGerald NIHR Imperial BRC Research Officer
If you’re aged 18-45 and otherwise healthy you could be eligible to participate in a clinical study we are holding in London and Cambridge.
The study seeks to understand more about peanut allergy, with the aim of improving allergen labelling on foods. You will learn more about your allergy and be part of something ground breaking!
You will also be compensated up to £800 for your time.
The Faculty has a number of digital information screens dotted around the campuses. These are an excellent way to promote your news and events to other staff, students and campus visitors.
All staff can send posters and information to Sinead Caushaj (Administrative Assistant – Building Operations – s.caushaj@imperial.ac.uk ). Staff and postgrads can select individual/all/multiple campuses to upload information to.
Other digital screens around the College
If you wish to promote your message via other digital screens (not listed above), please contact Katie Weeks (k.weeks@imperial.ac.uk) in the events team.
This year at the Imperial Festival, Professor Roger Kneebone (Surgery and Cancer) and his team presented a realistic simulation of how a new surgical tool developed by Dr Zoltan Takats and team from Imperial College London could revolutionise the way surgeons decide what tissue to remove during an operation. The Intelligent Knife or iKnife can precisely identify tumour tissue while an operation is underway, thus making the surgery more reliable and faster. Visitors met and spoke with practicing surgeons, doctors, paramedics and scientists to find out more about how this new technology could become an everyday practice and who this technology is actually benefiting.
The surgeon, Miss Laura Muirhead, uses the iKnife to identify a lump in the bowel. (Photo by Howard Tribe)
The performance started with a patient arriving by ambulance with lower abdominal pain. After handover, he was taken in to the pop-up operating theatre where the simulated open bowel procedure went underway using the iKnife. In between performances, visitors were encouraged to try out the iKnife themselves to identify the sources of different samples of animal liver.
Children using the iKnife to identify the different sources of animal liver. (Photo by Howard Tribe)
“Absolutely fantastic!” said one mother after visiting the Strictly Science exhibition. “My daughter thinks it’s ‘the best museum ever.’ She got bored of the Science Museum, because there is not enough interactive stuff for kids.”
From 4-14 April, the main foyer of Imperial College was transformed into a series of live and cinematic installations showcasing science past, present and future to commemorate the 100th birthday of the Medical Research Council. The exhibition saw around 5000 visitors.
Visitors sampled vitamin-rich recipes to cure rickets, learned how a clockwork kymograph was used to discover the first neurotransmitter, and how a spiky test-tube helped improve treatment for war wounds, all within a laboratory from 1913. “People have been finding the experiments quite fascinating, even if they didn’t necessarily understand everything,” said Jan Huisman (University Museum Groningen), who brought the kymograph from the Netherlands. “We’ve had a lot of interaction from the audience.”
Demonstration of war-wound experiment in the YESTERDAY lab
Guests got to play with interactive tools used by neurotechnologists to study the brain. Balance boards were used to engage young and old in the effects of ageing on movement. People played classic computer game, Pong, using only their eyes. And experiments using a full body motion capture suit were happening live throughout the exhibition. “My favourite part was playing Pong on the Blink interactive,” said one young visitor. “My favourite part was when you were on the balancing thing and you had to see if you could move the ball,” commented another.
Members of Dr Aldo Faisal’s research team engage visitors in neurotechnology
“It was very interesting hearing all the famous people and children saying what they think the future will be like in 100 years time. Very soothing. I could quite happily sit there all day just listening to those voices.” commented one lady shortly after experiencing a 3D sound sculpture, which united the future hopes and fears of professionals and primary school children for 2113.
A visitor enjoys a light display in the TOMORROW lab, which united the voices of professionals and primary schoolchildren
What happens to your body if you’re stabbed? How deep does that wound go? What organs might be injured? And how do surgeons put things right? Professor Roger Kneebone and his team show what goes on – before, during and after surgery. Not for the faint-hearted.
