Quick Answer. Cardiotonic drugs are substances that increase the contracting mechanism within the heart, thereby causing more blood to be pumped throughout the circulatory system. These drugs usually affect intracellular calcium levels in the heart muscle to achieve the desired increase in muscle action.
Miniaturized hearing aids that will fit into the ear canal. Miniaturization tech could also be used to monitor pulse, blood-pressure, glucose, ECG via wireless, be used in implants, pacemakers. February 17, 2014. Fraunhofer researchers pack a total of 19 hearing-aid components (left) into their new microsystem (right).
The IIC and Lyric hearing aid are both designed to be fit in the second bend of the ear canal. This is a deep insertion fitting that begins where a standard CIC ends and ends only millimetres from the ear drum. The IIC is a custom molded hearing aid that is removed daily, the same as all traditional hearing aids.