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Contamination of medical devices and hospital environments with free-living amoebae: Evidence from hospitals in Northwestern Iran. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Behniafar H   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Surgical Equipment and Materials Left in Patients

open access: yesBritish Journal of Perioperative Nursing (United Kingdom), 2005
This article seeks to examine the issue of lost equipment and materials left in patients and the assumptions that registered theatre practitioners make. The assumptions are highlighted using a tragic case study that relates to a young lady who died and what the subsequent post mortem revealed: five pieces of gauze in her abdominal cavity which were ...
James, Brown, Donald, Feather
openaire   +3 more sources

Surgical equipment

2023
Abstract This chapter covers the use, indications, and safety of surgical equipment. It starts with minimal access surgery, then goes on to laparoscopy, arthroscopy, endoscopy, the use of prosthetics, electrosurgical equipment, operating microscopes, lasers in surgery, and finally tourniquets.
exaly   +2 more sources

Assessment of technical needs for surgical equipment by surgical process models

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies, 2009
The presented approach introduces a method for estimating the potential benefit of a surgical assist system prior to its actual development or clinical use. The central research question is: What minimal requirements must a future system meet so that its use would be more advantageous than a conventional or already existent method or system, and how ...
Thomas Neumuth   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

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