Departments: Surgery/Orthopaedics

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07/01/2003

US skin refrigerants for EU

Ethyl Chloride skin refrigerants made by the Gebauer Company, of Cleveland, Ohio (established over 100 years ago) have received the CE Mark of approval. …

07/01/2003

50 years of open heart surgery

Fifty years ago Henry Gibbon introduced a vital tool for cardiac surgery - the heart-lung machine. While pioneering efforts were made in the first half of the 20th century, this …

07/01/2003

40,000 mobile theatre operations

UK - Launching the “world's most advanced mobile operating theatre”, at the annual scientific meeting of the British Association of Day Surgery, Gary King, Managing Director …

07/01/2003

Virtual patients for MIS training

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS), carried out through very small incisions, minimises patient trauma and shortens rehabilitation time. …

07/01/2003

Titanised ilicone breast implants

Implants presently in use consist of a smooth or textured silicone shell filled with a silicone gel or saline solution. The latter has one decisive drawback - the breast may cool …

04/30/2003

Hygienic and versatile lighting

The Trilux 554 series has been designed to meet sterile demands in clean rooms. Trilux-Lenze, the manufacturer reports: …

04/30/2003

Minimally invasive endoprosthetics

Early in the history of endoprosthetic hip and knee joint replacements almost exclusively had cement fixations. Now the objective is to replace only the areas of joints actually …

04/30/2003

Hygiene: pre-surgical hair removal

Preoperative removal of hair from an operative site is important measures for avoiding postoperative wound infections. …

04/30/2003

Advanced therapy planning in hepatic surgery

The planning of hepatic surgery of primary and secondary liver tumours is a multimodal process, using modern imaging techniques - mainly contrast enhanced imaging such as CAT and …

04/30/2003

44th Austrian Surgeons Congress

The Austrian Society for Surgery and associated societies will focus on oncology/MIS, …

04/30/2003

80% of sharps injuries are avoidable

Injuries caused by needles and other sharp medical devices - and the related risk of potentially fatal disease transmission - remain a major threat to medical staff. …

04/30/2003

The safety of breast implants

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04/30/2003

A new cutting mode for TUR-P

Dry Cut, a new cutting mode produced specifically for transurethral resection of the prostate (TUR-P), has been launched by Erbe Elektromedizin, of Tubingen, Germany. This, with …

04/30/2003

Robot-assisted total knee replacement

Total knee replacement (TKR) is a common procedure for treatment of severe gonarthrosis, but the outcome may be unsatisfactory due to primary malalignment of the prosthetic …

04/30/2003

Improving blade geometry

Komet Medical report that the firm's K-2000 saw blade has been further improved, and that a completely new blade geometry for 'Evolution' has been developed, to provide an even …

04/30/2003

New approaches for gentler healing

By Professor Horst Neuhaus MD, Head of Internal Medicine at the Evangelical Hospital, Dusseldorf, describes highlights during April's 33rd Congress of the German Society of …

04/30/2003

Operating theatres: the future

Innovative Technologies are the driving force behind the development of medical procedures aimed at minimum invasiveness with the highest precision and best clinical results. …

04/30/2003

Robotic surgery training

Robotic technology has helped to advance MIS - particularly for the very small anatomies of children. Among the newest innovations is the Socrates Robotic Telecollaboration …

04/30/2003

Transplants

Birmingham, UK - Giving interleukin-2 receptor antibodies to patients after a kidney transplant can halve the risk of rejection, according to a study published in the British …

04/30/2003

Movement Mapping (MM)

During the past decade total hip replacements have increased, even for younger patients with degenerative joint disease. Due to new bearing surfaces, such as the ceramics-ceramics …

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