The risk did not turn up in other studies of the drug in surgery, and Bextra has not been approved for post-surgical use.
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.
Shadow Health Secretary Dr Liam Fox has called for a public inquiry into the safety of single-use surgical instruments.
Until now, Ford has tried to use a surgical approach to workforce reduction, offering buyouts and early retirements only to certain workers in certain plants where factories are closing or production is being scaled back.
The take-home message is this: Use a surgical mask when you are traveling to areas that have reported cases of swine flu and bring an additional one to give to anyone near you who forgot one or appears to be sick and is coughing or sneezing.
It's still cheap at 15 times expected 2010 earnings, he says, but management has done an excellent job of investing in products with strong recurring revenue such as surgical stapling machines and single-use laparoscopic tools.
However, with the new clinical data, Intuitive Surgical may have a hard time promoting the use of its system for hysterectomies.
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Patients who are ill should be asked to wear a surgical mask to contain their secretions, he says, and they should use tissues and wash their hands frequently to prevent touch contamination.
Mr Lansley says he will draw the review team's attention to the work of the Surgical Materials Testing Laboratory based in Bridgend, after Ms Griffiths suggested the English NHS might wish to use it.
They use different makes of artificial joints, different kinds of anesthesia, different regimens for post-surgical pain control and physical therapy.
Teleflex, the company that makes these clips, said surgeons have safely and successfully used them in millions of surgical procedures, and that the company believes the transplant community is "well aware" of the warning not to use them in kidney donors.
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