alt Hacker NewsThey 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?
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eig • today at 1:00 PM
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" =(
The method in the article is more similar to cavitation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation You get small bubles of water vapor and after a short time it transform into liquid water and just dissappears.
In scuba diving the bubbles are made of Nitrogen, that can't dissappear. It must get slowly disolved in the blood and get out of the body in breath.