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The Triple B: Blood-Brain Barrier

13/01/2014 13:51
The Blood Brain Barrier is what separates the Brain into its seperate "compartment". The BBB prevents larger substances such as Bacteria from entering the brain whilst allowing smaller essential molecules through like O2, CO2 and Glucose through. This is due to tight junctions...

The da Vinci Surgery System

07/01/2014 12:11
The da Vinci Surgery System is a very cool piece of kit. It is effectively a robot that is capable of performing lacroscopic surgery far more precisely than a human possibly could. the video I have embedded explains the advantages very well; it allows depth perception due to its use of two cameras...

Severed hand grafted onto ankle

17/12/2013 12:24
  Xiao Wei lost his right hand in an accident at work and couldn’t have it reattached immediately due to crushing injuries to his arm which needed to be treated before reattachment. The Chinese are becoming ever better at microsurgery as you can see from one of my articles a while ago on...

PIP`s Jean-Claude Mas gets jail sentance

10/12/2013 13:29
The head of the company that produced the defective PIP breast implants has been sentenced to 4 years for fraud. All but one of the companys senior staff claimed they did not know it was an issue. The implants themselves were surgically introduced to 300,000 women world wide with 7,500...

Lobotomy: the history of a questionable "cure"

09/12/2013 13:20
A very contorversial topic, probably most famous for its appearance and subsequent demonisation in "one flew over the cuckoos nest", it was long believed to be an effective treatment for physcotic or mental illnesses. The procedure was conceived in 1935 by Antonio Egas Moniz who would...

ICD

09/12/2013 13:13
The Implantable Cardioconverter device (ICD) is effectively a portable defibrillator device which is surgically implanted pectoraly. Two wires are surgically placed transvenously across the superior Vena Cava which are used to input the cardiac stroke rate to the device. During Cardio tachyrhythmia...

Medtronic Octopus

09/12/2013 13:12
The Medtronic Octopus is a device that facilitates and assists in off-pump cardiac operations. The clamp is attached to the side of the thoracic retractors and the articulated arm is used to position a dual vacuum system over the heart which, once the suction is turned on, allows the heart to be...

Man Engineers Own Aorta

21/11/2013 12:19
Mr. Tal Golesworthy, an engineer for british coal, has Marfan syndrome. Marfan syndrome is a genetic defect in the FBN1 gene which incodes the production of fibrillin-1, the structural protein incorporated into elastic fibres in the extra-cellular matrix allowing for an "elastic wireframe" if you...

Amputation patient talk

04/11/2013 12:33
Unfortunately we havent yet perfected the art of limb synthesis quite like certain salamanders or even the ability to synthesise entire new organ systems from a single limb as similarily as starfish. Due to certain conditions such as necrotizing fasciitis (giving rise to ganrgene) or severe trauma...

ICD

24/10/2013 12:46
The Implantable Cardioconverter device (ICD) is effectively a portable defibrillator device which is surgically implanted pectoraly. Two wires are surgically placed transvenously across the superior Vena Cava which are used to input the cardiac stroke rate to the device. During Cardio...
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