Orthopedic Care Articles
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Tips and Precautions for Using Oxygen Concentrator
Using an oxygen concentrator to breathe additional oxygen is safe and life-sustaining. However, just like with any other form of gadget, it’s vital to know a few tricks to get the most out of it. A common misunderstanding is that portable oxygen concentrators are the same as compressed oxygen or oxygen tanks, which are both methods of supplying more oxygen. As a result of the oxygen ...
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Nitinol Applications
Although many nitinol applications are not well-known to the public, some applications are quite routine and familiar. The spectacle frame made of Nitinol severely deformed and then returned to normal. Similarly, a few years ago, when mobile phone antennas were made of Nitinol, they could bend without breaking or permanently bending. Another superelastic application of Nitinol is for orthodontic ...
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Providing training and on-site support for Ugandan hospital staff helps staff make better use of DrillCover tools
Surgeons, nurses, and other medical staff at a hospital in Uganda are now able to take advantage of Arbutus Medical battery-powered tools as well as local technical support to treat thousands of orthopedic patients in need. For several years, Arbutus Medical has worked with international aid organizations to bring DrillCover surgical tools to hospitals in low-resource countries to help them ...
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Airborne Spread of Clostridium Difficile
C.Diff is one of the most pervasive and deadly pathogens of interest in hospitals today. It is both incredibly resilient and infectious. If contracted, patients must undergo involved care which often includes powerful antibiotics that come with their own detrimental effects to the patient. Thus, hospitals have taken a wide range of strategic infection protocol steps to curb the spread of ...
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The Hex Drill helps increase operational efficiency at leading US Trauma Center - Case Study
Arbutus Medical has developed and patented a radically affordable orthopedic drilling kit to combat rising healthcare costs and improve access to safe surgical power tools around the world. In September 2019, the kit was implemented at a leading trauma center in the United States for use in damage control ...
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Application of Orthopedic Insoles in Sports Football
Mechanical disorders of the foot are very common among professional football players. The common foot injury is plantar fasciitis caused by excessive pronation. Another common injury of professional football players is sesamoid osteitis. Because the injured part is below the first plantar column, it has a great impact on football players. The main causes of sesamoid osteitis are excessive ...
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Consolidation, Pre- and Post-Peak Shearing Responses from Internally Instrumented Biaxial Compression Device
An internally instrumented, servo-controlled biaxial compression device is described for evaluating shear band formation in soils. Internally measured vertical and lateral soil displacements as well as lateral deformations of a very low friction bottom sled allow one to observe the progressive development of shear bands in a specimen. Anisotropically consolidated specimens of relatively ...
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