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High-Energy Clamp Simplifies Heart Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation

...on. //Using radiofrequency devices — rather than a scalpel — they've greatly shortened the surgery and made it significantly easier to perform. "Because of the devices, the procedure — called the Cox-Maze procedure — has gone from an operation that hardly anyone was doing to one that 80 to 90 percent of U....

Cervical Procedures Increase Risk Of Pregnancy Complications

...wedge of tissue around the abnormal cells, using a scalpel (blade). This can also be done using laser and is referred to as Laser conisation. Large loop excision of the transformation zone (LLETZ) is the most commonly used treatment form and is based on use of electric current to remove the area of suspici...

Operation ‘Job Cut’: 1000 Jobs to be chopped By Hospital Managemet

The scalpel and the scissors have found additional use. It is choppy weather at the hospital in Staffordshire, where nearly 1000 stand to lose their jobs. // The Management of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent has informed staff th...

Reducing The After Effects of Tonsillectomy

...lectomy using the electrocautery method, a special scalpel heats tissue as it goes along to control bleeding during the procedure. The microdissection needle technique uses less energy to achieve the same result, which means less trauma to surrounding tissue. Researchers investigated the microdissection nee...

Less Pain After Tonsillectomy

...lectomy using the electrocautery method, a special scalpel heats tissue as it goes along to control bleeding during the procedure. The microdissection needle technique uses less energy to achieve the same result, which means less trauma to surrounding tissue. Researchers from both the Children's Hospital Re...

New scalpel probes into cancer

A smart scalpel which is able to detect the presence of cancer cel...to stain tissue samples, which may take hours this scalpel will be able to tell the surgeon when to stop cutting. The brain is a particularly critical place t...

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