León, Gto., March 14, 2019.- Andrea Arévalo Torres, student of the degree in biomedical engineering of the Division of Sciences and Engineering and Emilio Ferrer Rangel, of the degree in nursing and obstetrics of the Division of Health Sciences, both of the Campus León of the University of Guanajuato (UG), developed a prototype of the study of impedance in the bladder product of their research projects, which they presented at the XLIII International Congress of the Mexican College of National Urology in the city of Monterrey, N.L. to which attended From March 5th to 9th, 2019.

The students of the UG were the only undergraduate students who presented work of a high level of research, comparable to research carried out by resident doctors in the field of urology.

In an interview, Andrea Arévalo Torres mentioned that "the main motivation is that the studies of urodynamics (medical specialty whose objective is to study the functioning of the bladder both in the filling and in the bladder emptying phase) are very invasive, Then we are looking for an alternative to create one that allows us to make these detections of pressure in bladders of patients with neurogenic bladder in a non-invasive, low-cost and radiation-free, which is what bioimpedance offers.

The name of her research was "detection of the minimum and maximum bladder capacity from a frequency analysis of the parameters of bioimpedance in patients with bladder dysfunction of neurological origin"; Andrea intends to delve into this topic to soon be the argument of her degree as a graduate in biomedical engineering at UG.

Emilio Ferrer Rangel, a student of the degree in nursing and obstetrics of the Division of Health Sciences, developed his project in the search to perform his professional social service, which he got in the area of research.

He also said in an interview that "as we developed the project, it was very easy for me to relate the career of biomedical engineering with my career (bachelor's degree in Nursing and obstetrics); Because, although it could sound like two very different races, in the end one thing that unites us both is to enter fully into the hospital area and work for the patient, then as such, nursing is the one who makes the detections in the first instance and the problem to emerge, is that there is no procedure that can serve as a screening test to detect abnormalities in the bladder." Emilio's project was called "the characterization of the bladder tissue from its minimum to its maximum filling state, relating the impedance phase to the minimum and maximum volumes of the bladder".

This study was conducted with a sample of 4 women, and the results that both students presented were preliminary.

The advisers of these works were Dr. José Marco Balleza Ordaz, professor-Researcher of the Division of Sciences and Engineering of the Campus León de la UG and Dr. Rafael Edgardo Maldonado Valadez, graduate of the degree in medicine of the UG and doctor specialist In urology of the Department of Urology of the Regional High specialty Hospital of the Bajío (HRAEB).

For his part, Dr. José Marco Balleza Ordaz, tutor of the students interviewed, said that in the Congress attended they had very good acceptance, "it was surprise of many, that they were students, because they really presented themselves as students of degree, I think it caused a lot of surprise among the attendees; However, there were fairly good comments at the professional level, at the level of research; I am really proud of them, they have participated and they have shown that their research is on the same level as graduate students."

The students are preparing to continue participating in new calls for national and international congresses of innovation in the application of technology in medicine.

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