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Once a patch of forest burned, it helped to prevent the flow of fire across the landscape.
And if we can't prevent it in one another, what can we do?
And what can you do to prevent it?
Well, there are two things, scientifically shown, that prevent or reduce the risk of SUDEP.
So we had started with work on stress, which had enabled us to build lots of sensors that were gathering high quality enough data that we could leave the lab and start to get this in the wild; accidentally found a whopper of a response with the seizure, neurological activation that can cause a much bigger response than traditional stressors; lots of partnership with hospitals and an epilepsy monitoring unit, especially Children's Hospital Boston and the Brigham; and machine learning and AI on top of this to take and collect lots more data in service of trying to understand these events and if we could prevent SUDEP.
I want to wrap up, but I want to close with what I take to be the four lessons from Sergio's life on this question of how do we prevent evil from prevailing, which is how I would have framed the question.
But promising new medications are intervening in novel ways, like keeping oxygen bonded to hemoglobin to prevent sickling, or reducing the stickiness of sickled cells.
We also have to have sensible defense, because no limitation is going to prevent a crazy person from doing something.
Our investment in trying to prevent pandemic flu is affecting the distribution of possible outcomes.
They have sticky bits on their ribs that prevent their enormous stomach from crushing their lungs.
Unless we do something to prevent it, over the next 40 years we’re facing an epidemic of neurologic diseases on a global scale.
And genetic testing in people with rare disorders that prevent them from feeling pain have pinpointed several other possible targets for drugs and perhaps eventually gene therapy.
Tanks and raceways can recirculate and filter water to prevent pollution.
And massive numerical advantages do matter, even when a single bad guy can inflict grievous harm, because among many other things, they allow us to exploit the hell out of this: we have years and hopefully decades to prepare and prevent.
Using condoms helps prevent the spread of HPV during sex.
When I say 60 percent are preventable, I mean there are concrete steps and standard procedures that we could implement that could prevent these bad outcomes from occurring and save women's lives.
For example, if a pregnant woman in labor has really high blood pressure and we treat her with the right antihypertensive medication in a timely fashion, we can prevent stroke.
They hooked her up to multiple different monitors and paid special attention to her blood pressure, the fetal heart rate tracing and gave her IV medication to prevent a seizure.
And they prevent disaster.
But too many rules prevent accomplished jazz musicians from improvising.
Used to be able to prevent this fouling by coating ships and submarines with toxic agents, like heavy metals, but these heavy metals aren't as effective at keeping ships clean as they used to be.
So several years ago, the US Office of Naval Research called on one of my colleagues, engineer scientist Dr. Anthony Brennan, to devise a solution to prevent fouling without the use of these heavy metals.
See, Dr. Brennan was already investigating how things like surface roughness can prevent the attachment of organisms like algae.
In other words, we prevent these infections from occurring altogether.
In 2013, I joined the team, and together we used engineered surfaces mimicking the skin of sharks to prevent bacteria and other medical complications.
We can prevent other medical complications through understanding the power of surface energy, things like frequent clogging, excessive blood clotting or poor healing interactions.
We've actually discovered that we can improve how medical devices are tolerated through subtly tuning the surface energy characteristics, like for example, we can prevent a lot of the excessive clotting that's occurring here on the smooth surface, compared to the sharkskin-like texture.
This means that we can actually match the required surface energy with the medical use to prevent complications, all with the power of sharks.
But that doesn't prevent them from both being completely false.
But the thing is, in a comprehensible universe, if something isn't forbidden by the laws of physics, then what could possibly prevent us from doing it, other than knowing how?
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