Once perfected, the silk will be used for featherweight ballistic vests, medical sutures and artificial ligaments.
Tyco's medical-products division leads, or is runner-up in, the American markets for sutures, swabs, incontinence nappies and respiratory equipment.
Surgeons started using infection-fighting dressings and sutures, giving additional doses of antibiotics after surgery and leaving dressings unchanged until three days post-procedure.
Recycling in Mumbai is so sophisticated that the guts of dead animals are said to be collected and turned into medical sutures.
Birds and reptiles hatch from eggs, yet they, too, have these sutures.
The consequence is that sutures made with these new threads are expected to reduce the scarring left when the stitches are removed.
Supplies manufactured by Ethicon, like sutures and trocars (used for laparoscopic surgery), would become obsolete because of new product developments by the company.
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But in either surgery, small nerves can be irritated by the procedure or the repair mesh as well as by sutures or tacks used to hold the mesh against the abdominal wall.
Similar to their asset tracking initiative, which is now running very smoothly thanks to SAP Netweaver Mobile 7.1, materials management for Baylor involves maintaining accurate records of sutures, bandages, over the counter meds and more.
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Taylor and his team envisage their tiny serpent-like bots being used in areas such as throat operations, where they can bend easily and be used to make incisions and tie sutures with incredible dexterity and precision.
As a young patent lawyer in the early 1960s he went behind the Iron Curtain and brought back the metal sutures that gave birth to U.S. Surgical Corp. and the technology to make soft contact lenses.
"Robotic surgery does help me when I have to go really deep in the pelvis or use a lot of sutures, " says gynecological surgeon Marie Paraiso at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, who uses both procedures.
The winner among undergraduate inventors was a team of four students at Johns Hopkins University, Leslie Myint, Daniel Peng, Andy Tu, and Stephen van Kooten, for FastStich, a breakthrough handheld machine for sewing sutures in abdominal surgery both faster and more safely than traditional methods allow.
When there is no way of knowing exactly how long our skeins will run and when we imagine ourselves to have much more time than we do our every impulse is to fight, to die with chemo in our veins or a tube in our throats or fresh sutures in our flesh.
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