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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.
Though no one tracks the total number of noninvasive or minimally invasive surgeries across the board, medical device makers say the trend is similar for other types of surgery as well--be it to relieve back pain, implant coronary stents, or shrink the stomachs of very obese people.
There are two main approaches to repairing a hernia: an open repair that requires a large incision, or a minimally invasive laparoscopic technique, which uses a camera to guide instruments through a tiny incision.
Under a tenure policy, however, the employer effectively loses this flexibility to eliminate tenured faculty whose quality of work fails to meet a minimally acceptable level or whose productivity has dwindled over the years.
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Or, the event could be so minimally disruptive that it ends up being a non-event.
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.
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Gracias' microgrippers could be used for things like very minimally invasive biopsies, but he has much bigger--or, smaller--plans.
Using a Da Vinci surgery platform, made by Intuitive Surgical, surgeons can perform minimally invasive procedures on the abdomen as an alternative to laparoscopies or laparotomies.
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He took on hundreds of minimally skilled technicians and let his headquarters staff swell to 900, or 16% of Meitec's total payroll.
Such minimally conscious patients, while bedridden and in a heavy fog, can sometimes answer a yes or no question, follow simple commands or utter a few words.
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