Researchers 3D Print Materials to Mimic Soft Tissues and Create Custom Braces
3D printing is already widely utilized in medicine during cardiac surgeries, to make orthopedic implants, and as guides to accurately put them in place. Typically, the devices that are printed are rigid, but the body is mostly made of soft tissues.
Engineers at MIT have been working on offering clinicians a way to use additive manufacturing, another name for 3D printing, to make customizable devices that are soft and flexible, but which can also provide support where needed.
The researchers are now able to print bespoke, flexible meshes made out of thermoplastic polyurethane which have characteristics similar to coll...
Source: Medgadget - June 26, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Materials Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Rehab Source Type: blogs
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Source: OnMedica Blogs - June 13, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
Hot Glue Gun and Custom Biocompatible Glue for Wound Closures
Soft tissue wounds and incisions are generally closed using sutures and staples, but those leave marks behind and can be very unpleasant for patients. In some cases, such as cosmetic surgery, specialty adhesives are used to fuse tissues together. However, these can be toxic and they tend to solidify into a harder form than native tissue. Researchers from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created a soft biocompatible glue, and an accompanying glue gun, that can close wounds and incisions quickly and easily, and which does not cause toxic side effects.
The glue is made of four‐armed N‐hydroxy succinimide‐mod...
Source: Medgadget - June 13, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Emergency Medicine Military Medicine Surgery Source Type: blogs
Engineers Create Cross-Linked Hydrogels to Lure Stem Cells Into Wounds
Hydrogels have become a popular material for new treatment strategies targeting a variety of diseases. They can deliver encapsulated therapeutic molecules, degrade in the body at a predefined rate, and can be biocompatible. However, each application requires the hydrogel to have appropriate strength, consistency, and the ability to carry growth factors or other molecules within itself.
Researchers at Rice University have now created a way to incorporate biomolecules intended for delivery to a target site in the body into structural components within an injectable hydrogel. These biomolecules give the hydrogel its unique pl...
Source: Medgadget - June 11, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Materials Plastic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Nexus Ultrasonic Surgical Platform from Misonix FDA Cleared
Mixonix, a Farmingdale, New York company that specializes in ultrasonic devices for surgical applications such as osteotomies and debridements, won FDA clearance for the new Nexus surgical platform. The Nexus combines the capabilities of Mixonix’s three existing products, namely BoneScalpel, SonicOne and Sonastar, into a single system that can be used to perform tumor resections, bone corrections, and a whole host of other procedures. It will be made available for purchase in the U.S. next month.
The Nexus is designed to accommodate future ultrasonic devices that the company expects to develop. It is run by the firm&...
Source: Medgadget - June 5, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Oncology Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Source Type: blogs
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Source: What's New In Plastic Surgery? - June 4, 2019 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: christine hamori duxbury Skin Spa Specials web specials Source Type: blogs
We Need to Talk about Wound Care in Transgender Women Healing From a Vaginoplasty
By: Matt Hopper A lot of transgender women who undergo a vaginoplasty report being frustrated with the health care system and lack of competent practitioners who can provide quality care for gender-affirming procedures (medical procedures that affirm a transgender person’s gender identity). These procedures, such as hormone therapy, “top” surgery (i.e. mastectomy, breast implants, etc.),
The post We Need to Talk about Wound Care in Transgender Women Healing From a Vaginoplasty appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 31, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Health Equity On the Pulse LGBT postoperative transgender Source Type: blogs
Bioabsorbable Wound Dressing with Nanoscale Chitosan to Rapidly Stop Bleeding
Chitosan is a sugar compound derived from the exoskeletons of shrimp, crab, and other shellfish. It is used extensively in medicine, including in dressings, because of its well known hemostatic properties. These properties work at the nanoscale, so delivering tiny bits of chitosan to the site of a wound can help improve how it works compared with larger pieces. However, chitosan tends to clump, so simply delivering it as a powder doesn’t work.
Researchers at Texas A&M and Assiut University in Egypt have now managed to encapsulate chitosan nanofibers within a hydrogel, which can be placed inside a wound and left t...
Source: Medgadget - May 31, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Emergency Medicine Materials Plastic Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Prevena Negative Pressure System FDA Approved for Superficial Surgical Site Infections
KCI, now a part of the Acelity Company, has announced that its PREVENA negative pressure incision management system is the first to receive FDA’s indication to help with reducing superficial surgical site infections in those at high risk of post-op infections. The approval comes under the FDA’s de novo pathway that was designed to bring forward new technologies that may help address important medical necessities.
The PREVENA system is a disposable product that is used to cover and protect a wound, and it negative pressure force of -125mmHg helps to drain the wound of fluids. It was previously approved by the F...
Source: Medgadget - May 16, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Plastic Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
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Source: What's New In Plastic Surgery? - May 7, 2019 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: christine hamori coolsculpting duxbury skin spa specials thermage flx ultherapy Source Type: blogs
CleanCase Device-Specific Smart Sterile Covers Going on Sale
SteriDev, a Lansing, Michigan firm, is releasing the first device-specific sterile mobile device coverings. The CleanCase coverings are FDA-compliant and allow surgeons, technicians, and other clinical staff to use smartphones and tablets even in the operating room (OR).
These days, it can be quite a hassle to bring a smartphone in the OR, making it difficult to document and share details about a procedure, take quick notes about something, or simply to photograph a clinical curiosity.
The CleanCase device is designed to make it easy to transfer a non-sterile phone into a sterile case. It requires a sterile user to hold th...
Source: Medgadget - April 30, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Neurosurgery Ob/Gyn Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Radiology Thoracic Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Helping a Friend with Mental Illness
Even if we live with mental illness, ourselves, we can be frustrated when we don’t know how to help a friend or family member who’s dealing with it. We may find that coping skills that work for us may not work for someone else. Medications that work for us may not work for the other person. In this episode, Gabe and Michelle discuss how to help friends with mental illness, including the help available through caregivers, medication, and more.
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Source: World of Psychology - April 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Caregivers Depression Friends Source Type: blogs
Sen. Warren Calls for Imprisoning Executives Over Negligent Harm
Presidential candidate and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) wants to see more business people behind bars, and she ’s not fussy about how to make that happen. In aWashington Post op-ed last week she unveiled a new Corporate Executive Accountability Act, which in her words would expand “criminal liability to any corporate executive who negligently oversees a giant company causing severe harm to U.S. families.” She says she wants top executives to know that they can be (again in her own words) “hauled out in handcuffs for failing to reasonably oversee the companies they run.”Under longstanding legal protec...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 9, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Narcotics are not necessary for recovery after plastic surgery
When it comes to plastic surgery, I have found that many people— doctors included— expect post-surgical pain, so they plan for that assumption. This means preparing for days, weeks, or months of narcotics use. This mode of thinking begins long before any incisions are made, virtually guaranteeing a patient will be taking opioids. […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 7, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lawrence-iteld" rel="tag" > Lawrence Iteld, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Surgery Source Type: blogs
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Source: What's New In Plastic Surgery? - April 3, 2019 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: duxbury hamori laser hair motus AX skin spa specials Source Type: blogs
