needle insertion Articles
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Six Common Suturing Techniques
Introduction Suturing techniques are used to hold and strengthen body tissues to help wounds heal after surgery or due to an injury. The techniques minimize bleeding and prevent infections. They are available in two types: non-absorbable and absorbable sutures. The absorbable sutures are made of natural material that breaks down and is absorbed in the body with time. On the other hand, ...
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Micromate™ Case Report: Robot-Guided Bone Biopsy
Micromate™ Case Report series presents real cases performed by the physicians currently using our full-fledged robotic platform for percutaneous procedures. Today, we join Dr. Alexander Kupferthaler, Interventional Radiologist at the Ordensklinikum Linz – Barmherzige Schwestern, for a robot-guided bone biopsy. Clinical Context 65-year-old female with invasive lobular carcinoma of ...
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VCs infuse $215M into Sanofi-backed wearable subcutaneous drug delivery player Enable Injections
Sanofi-backed Enable Injections has gone big with its series C round. Three years after Sanofi led its series B, Enable Injections has raised a $215 million round to fund work on subcutaneous drug delivery system enFuse. Enable Injections’ device consists of a wearable delivery disc and a system for transferring the drug from its original vessel. Users put the disc in the transfer ...
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These AR Glasses Turned Me Into an Instant Surgeon
My hands are trembling. I have a 12-inch surgery grade needle in my right hand, and a transducer in my left. Without moving anything but my eyes I’m able to look up at a monitor to see an ultrasound image and the daunting outline of a tumor. “Go ahead, you can do it. Insert the needle directly into the tumor,” my guide tells me. I hesitate, take a deep breath out of fear or ...
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Rani Therapeutics prices $73M IPO for robotic drug-delivery pill tech
Rani Therapeutics Holdings (NSDQ:RANI), developer of a robotic drug-delivery pill system, generated $73.3 million in its underwritten initial public offering (IPO) of Class A common stock. The San Jose, Calif.–based company’s IPO of 6.7 million shares priced at $11 a share, generating gross proceeds of $73.3 million. The company initially targeted an IPO worth approximately $100 ...
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Freehand Transperineal Biopsy
“Freehand transperineal biopsy” seems to be the latest buzzword in the urology world, and for good reason. Compared to transrectal, transperineal is proven to be the cleaner and ultimately safer approach for prostate biopsies. The support for transperineal is growing, as mounting evidence continues to debunk previous misconceptions of tolerability, feasibility and accuracy. We ...
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