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SonoPrep: The Future In the Available Now Section I told of SonoPrep, a device just FDA approved for decreasing the amount of time it takes for Lidocaine to work from 60 minutes to five minutes. In the future SonoPrep will be used for delivering vaccines, insulin delivery, blood glucose monitoring, and antibiotic delivery. Besides being useful for vaccine, antibiotic, blood draws, lidocaine administration, glucose monitoring, and insulin delivery, it is proposed that SonoPrep would also be useful before other painful procedures such as angiography, balloon angioplasty, and the insertion of venous catheters. In a recent experiment Sontra Medical Corporation also experimented with using the SonoPrep to deliver tetanus vaccine to ten patients with ten patients receiving the regular needle vaccine as the experiment's control. This study was conducted by Daniel H. Libraty, M.D. at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The study showed the immune response induced by using the SonoPrep was equal to the immune response caused by the regular needle stick vaccine. The experimenters predict that in five years vaccines will be delivered this way if all goes well and the FDA approves it for this use. SonoPrep and other methods for making trips to the doctor less painful and scary might very well make all versions of this web site obsolete, and I couldn't be happier!
Here's to the future! God bless you and your children, and all who you love and care about!
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