... 31 05 2018 Human performance Force assessment Medical devices Medical devices Tissue engineered devices Design processes Equipment Biopsy punches (BPs) are indispensable medical devices which are utilized by clinicians and surgeons to obtain full-thickness skin specimens (Fig...

... Design processes Equipment Every year around 16 × 10 9 of injections are administrated worldwide, according to the data from World Health Organization [ 1 ]. In 2010, due to unsafe injection, 33,800 people were infected with HIV, 315,000 with hepatitis C virus, and 1.7 million were infected...

... Corresponding author. Manuscript received January 26, 2018; final manuscript received June 17, 2018; published online July 24, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Venketesh Dubey. 26 01 2018 17 06 2018 Medical devices Medical devices Medical instrumentation Minimally invasive devices Design...

... Medical instrumentation Minimally invasive devices Laparoscopic devices Design processes Equipment Image guided treatment Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has revolutionized the surgical treatment of many disorders and has multiple advantages over open surgery, including improved survival...

... 18 06 2018 Endoscopic devices Image guided intervention Medical devices Medical devices Minimally invasive devices Laparoscopic devices Design processes Equipment Image guided treatment Lung disease represents a large burden of disease and healthcare resources worldwide...

... machines. Manuscript received November 10, 2017; final manuscript received April 17, 2018; published online July 13, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Matthew R. Myers. 10 11 2017 17 04 2018 Human factors Medical devices Medical devices Design processes Manufacturing processes...

... August 14, 2017; final manuscript received April 17, 2018; published online July 13, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Michael Eggen. 14 08 2017 17 04 2018 Bio-Heat transfer devices Endoscopic devices Medical devices Medical devices Minimally invasive devices Laparoscopic devices Design...

.... Manuscript received September 6, 2017; final manuscript received April 29, 2018; published online July 13, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Chris Rylander. 06 09 2017 29 04 2018 Medical devices Medical devices Medical devices Design processes Manufacturing processes Equipment Wide sutures...

... manuscript received April 11, 2018; published online July 13, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Carl Nelson. 08 12 2017 11 04 2018 Medical devices Medical devices Design processes Equipment Otitis media with effusion (OME) is a very common ear disease that causes body imbalance, discomfort...

.... At each interaction step, the user's knowledge was integrated into the design process. In some cases, the design process adopted an active mode of driving the design away from a certain performance and toward the desired performance. In other cases, the user reacted to the visualization to observe...

... ,” J. Biomed. Mater. Res. Part B: Appl. Biomater. , 91B ( 2 ), pp. 579 – 586 . 10.1002/jbm.b.31432 11 07 2017 31 01 2018 Medical devices Medical devices Medical devices Medical instrumentation Design processes Manufacturing processes Equipment The Global...

... Minimally invasive devices Design processes Equipment Tension pneumothorax and hemothorax pose immediate increased risk for mortality and are common in patients with chest trauma. Physicians and emergency personnel respond by performing tube thoracostomy (TT), which is the placement of a chest...

... Medical devices Design processes As discussed earlier, the gel head was placed at the geometric center of the artery by manually identifying the location using finger palpation. Sensitivity of the data due to a change from the ideal centered position was analyzed by placing the sensor module...

... Laparoscopic devices Design processes Manufacturing processes Equipment Controlling blood loss is a major challenge in open and minimally invasive surgery (MIS) [ 1 ]. Even though the human body has a unique process that stops blood loss after an injury called hemostasis, this process is often too...

... robotics Design processes Equipment Medical simulation is critical in the training of surgical and medical residents. Training simulators give residents a safe environment to practice a wide variety of procedures where they can learn and make mistakes without harming patients [ 1 ]. In recent...

... manuscript received October 9, 2017; published online November 22, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Rita M. Patterson. 26 04 2017 09 10 2017 Medical devices Medical devices Medical devices Orthopedic devices Sports Instrumentation and Devices Tissue engineered devices Design processes...

... devices Minimally invasive devices Sensors and actuators Design processes Manufacturing processes Cardiovascular diseases are the first cause of death in the world according to the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. The most frequent pathologies are myocardial infarction, stroke...

... catalog. Medical devices Medical robotics Design processes Medical robotics began in the 1980s with robots developed in various domains: neurosurgery, orthopedics, minimally invasive surgery, tele-echography (a term used in this paper interchangeably with ultrasound), needle punctures...

... Medical devices Medical devices Medical devices Design processes Manufacturing processes Equipment Fluid resuscitation is a fundamental tenet of treating patients in shock [ 1 ], and the association of shock with trauma has long been recognized. There are four types of shock: (1) septic, (2...

... of actuation for the leaves was rotational, rather than linear, which is typical in larger clinical RT systems. The design presented here met the identified design requirements and represents a rigorous design process, during which several less successful designs were investigated and eventually discarded...