... Durfee. 08 01 2018 01 06 2018 Medical devices Medical instrumentation Minimally invasive devices Equipment The effectiveness of needle-based procedures is due to their placement accuracy. Therefore, guiding needle to a precise location inside soft tissue is an extremely...

... 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...

... processes Equipment Fig. 5 The relationship between theoretical maximum diameter, initial diameter, and initial braid angle In order to verify the mechanical model of extracting specimen with BFT, the following experiments have been designed and implemented. The related parameters...

... 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...

... processes Equipment Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death among men and women in the U.S. with an average 5 year survival rate of 7% [ 1 ]. Patients are typically asymptomatic until an advanced stage of the disease, leading to late diagnosis and limited treatment options...

... Manufacturing processes Equipment The impact of rare diseases (RD) is likely far greater than the term implies. The lives of nearly 30 million Americans, half of whom are children, are directly affected by nearly 7000 RD [ 1 ]. Statistics for the number of people seeking care with diseases of unknown...

.... Manuscript received December 20, 2017; final manuscript received April 9, 2018; published online July 13, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Venketesh Dubey. 20 12 2017 09 04 2018 Medical devices Equipment Regardless of the type of the developed automatic algorithm, the potential to improve...

.... 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...

... device that has multifiring function and is equipped with an independent clamp. The goal of this study is to provide a new closure method with this device and 4S-modified Roeder (4SMR) slipknot. The feasibility of the closure method is examined by deploying two clips during one insertion onto the 4SMR...

... ,” 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...

... tension to transmit the required torque, which in turn reduces cable wear as well as bearing loads and friction, and consequently improves drive system efficiency. The motors are equipped with incremental rotatory encoders of 4 × 500 counts per revolution for motion control using SimplIQ motor controllers...

... 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...

... ]. Image guided intervention Image guided treatment Medical devices Medical instrumentation Sensors and actuators Equipment 15 03 2017 19 01 2018 Manuscript received March 15, 2017; final manuscript received January 19, 2018; published online March 5, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Chris...

... Sensors and actuators Equipment Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative disease with motor symptoms that include muscle rigidity, tremors, and changes in gait. The disease has diverse clinical features and there is presently no definitive test for the diagnosis of PD [ 1 ]. It is therefore...

... received December 12, 2017; published online January 30, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Xiaoming He. 14 07 2017 12 12 2017 Bio-Heat transfer devices Human factors in medical devices Medical devices Equipment Point-of-care and rapid diagnostic tests (POC-RDTs) include a broad range...

... 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...