The CEO of another medical device company whose product is a minimally-invasive surgical tool, had it a bit easier.
Unsurprisingly, the primary application is to handle tasks inside your body, such as deploying it via a "minimally-invasive catheter procedure" rather than implanting it through surgery.
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Men are also seeking out minimally-invasive procedures.
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Today researchers are building force feedback surgical instruments for use in simulating--and eventually performing--minimally invasive surgical procedures like angioplasty or laparoscopic gall bladder removals.
Renal denervation therapy is a minimally invasive, catheter-based procedure that modulates the output of nerves that lie within the renal artery wall and lead into and out of the kidneys.
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The heart plug is implanted through a transcatheter tube inserted through the groin, a minimally invasive procedure compared with open-heart surgery.
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But now medical device makers are introducing an array of new, minimally invasive procedures to provide long-term pain relief without all the costs, risks, complications and recovery time of full-scale surgery.
In the not-too-distant future, he thinks new minimally invasive technologies will make the controversy obsolete.
ThermaCool represents a growing trend in medical treatments away from traditional open surgery--which has longer recovery periods, often a higher risk of injury or death, and typically costs more--toward "knifeless, " or minimally invasive, procedures.
Gracias' microgrippers could be used for things like very minimally invasive biopsies, but he has much bigger--or, smaller--plans.
Studies show that patients undergoing minimally invasive surgery have a quicker recovery and less short-term pain than with open repair.
We changed into scrubs and Alleyn took me through the sixteen operating rooms to show me the laparoscopy suite, with its flat-screen video monitors, the hybrid operating room with built-in imaging equipment, the surgical robot for minimally invasive robotic surgery.
Then, on the following day, the doctors were asked to perform a series of simulated operations via a virtual reality program used to train doctors in laparoscopic surgery, a form of minimally invasive surgery performed with tiny incisions and a fiber-optic camera.
Basco-Yu's operation in 1998 was a type of minimally invasive surgery performed at Duke University Medical Center.
It hints that investors, instead of pouring money into the next cancer-drug startup, may want to place their bets on companies developing better tumor imaging and minimally invasive surgery techniques that could have a bigger impact.
Overall, this could be the beginning of an upcoming surge in facial anti-aging surgeries, as more and more people discover that the temporary benefits of injectables and minimally invasive procedures can hold off the years only so long.
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