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There is presently a shortage of nurses in Japan, with a further shortage of 3,000–130,000 nurses expected. There is also shortage of scrub nurses. Scrub nurses are nurses who work in the operating room. The main job of scrub nurses is to assist surgeons.
Akito Nakano, K. Nagamune
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A Kinematic Bottleneck Approach for Pose Regression of Flexible Surgical Instruments Directly From Images [PDF]
3-D pose estimation of instruments is a crucial step towards automatic scene understanding in robotic minimally invasive surgery. Although robotic systems can potentially directly provide joint values, this information is not commonly exploited inside ...
Luca Sestini +4 more
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Recent tele‐mentoring technologies for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) augments the operative field with movements of virtual surgical instruments as visual cues.
Dehlela Shabir +10 more
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Segmentation and Removal of Surgical Instruments for Background Scene Visualization from Endoscopic / Laparoscopic Video. [PDF]
Surgical tool segmentation is becoming imperative to provide detailed information during intra-operative execution. These tools can obscure surgeons' dexterity control due to narrow working space and visual field-of-view, which increases the risk of ...
Hasan SMK, Simon RA, Linte CA.
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The widespread use of single-use polypropylene packaging for sterilization of surgical instruments (blue wrap) results in enormous environmental pollution and plastic waste, estimated at 115 million kilograms on a yearly basis in the United States alone.
H. J. Friedericy +4 more
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Comparison between a novel core knife and the conventional IT knife 2 for endoscopic submucosal dissection of gastric mucosal lesions [PDF]
Background/Aims Few studies have compared the performances of endoscopic knives. This study aimed to compare the therapeutic outcomes of a novel core knife and the conventional IT knife 2 for endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) of gastric mucosal ...
Myeongsoon Park +6 more
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Ontology-based surgical assistance system for instruments recognition [PDF]
De Momi, E. +4 more
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An Unusual Case of Tongue Entrapment in a Plastic Water Bottle
Background: Foreign bodies inside the oral cavity are commonly encountered among children. One peculiar occurrence is when the tongue gets entrapped in foreign bodies such as bottles.
Shafaat Ahmad +3 more
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A new tool for intraoperative marking [PDF]
This article describes the adaptation of a micro-punch mandrel, which is usually used in hair transplants, in intraoperative markings. The mandrel was used as a wire for sterile toothpick handling in different surgical marking procedures, such as those ...
Guilherme Flosi Stocchero +1 more
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Three‐Dimensional printed instruments used in a Septoplasty: A new paradigm in Surgery
Objective Three‐dimensional (3D) printing has been rapidly adopted by different surgical disciplines. It has shown itself to have improved outcomes in education, pre‐operative planning, and reconstruction.
Syed Zaidi, Paresh Naik, Shahzada Ahmed
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