“There are lots of good reasons for making a hole in someone’s head, and in a neurosurgeon’s hands it is not a risky procedure, but for someone doing it themselves the risks are huge.” This advice, from the British Medical Journal (BMJ, 320(7235): 602.), is very probably as sound today as when it was published […]
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Bubble Wrap for Surgical Patients
A veterinarian in Lake Worth, Florida reports a surgical innovation: “Bubble Wrap for Surgical Patients,” Greg J. Harrison, Journal of the Association of Avian Veterinarians, vol. 7n o. 4, 1993, p. 221. Dr. Harrison — the Harrison of Harrison’s Bird Foods — writes: “We have used regular bubble wrap to envelop avian patients undergoing long-term […]
Hockey-related injuries: Robot surgery
The Wall Street Journal reports a new kind of hockey-related injury: DOVER, N.H.—Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, a small community hospital in this coastal New England town, used a college hockey game to showcase its new technological marvel: a $1.4 million surgical robot named after Leonardo da Vinci. As the University of New Hampshire battled the University of […]
Tattoo disruption avoidance
If the owner of a tattoo needs surgery, what are the options for avoiding its disruption? A recent research paper from James Cook University Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital and North Tees Hospital in the UK explains how strategic siting of laparoscopic surgery incisions may be employed to avoid disrupting tattoos – which (at least in […]