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Microbubbles in Medicine(worksinprogress.co)
17 points by Jimmc414 4 days ago | 2 comments
amoshebb an hour ago | parent [-]

They mention using an ultrasonic pulse to pop bubbles around a kidney stone.

In scuba diving, microbubbles are what many blame decompression sickness on. I wonder if it may be possible to attach some sort of ultrasonic beeper to periodically burst them somewhere safe?

eig an hour ago | parent [-]

The microbubbles in scuba diving that cause the bends are the ones trapped in joint space fluid. That fluid doesn't circulate at a useful rate, so unfortunately you can't really "burst them somewhere else" =(