Category: Surgery
Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery.
Patient has appendix removed through his mouth.
Post date: Monday, March 17th, 2008.
Self-assembling nanoparticle device.
Chemical engineers have developed a high-resolution touch sensor that has a sensitivity comparable to human fingers. (via)
Post date: Thursday, June 8th, 2006.
Beating-heart transplant.
British doctors keep a donor heart alive and pumping blood for five hours before successfully transplanting it into the patient.
Post date: Monday, June 5th, 2006.
Implantable collamer lens.
Artificial lens that is surgically placed on the eye to replace wearing glasses.
Post date: Tuesday, February 28th, 2006.
Space doctors.
Canadian Space Agency developing training protocol for astronauts to perform surgical procedures in zero gravity.
Post date: Friday, February 17th, 2006.
Abdominal bot gastric rover.
Joystick controlled robot that is used to explore the abdominal cavity during surgery. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, February 1st, 2006.
What’s up, doc?
Chinese surgeons successfully transplant a rabbit’s face. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, February 1st, 2006.
H.M.
Experimental surgery has left man ‘in a mental time warp where TV is always a new invention and Truman is forever president‘. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 25th, 2006.
It’s not a tumor.
Russian man has human embryo removed from his back. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2006.
RFID implants.
Computer geeks are getting microchips with important passwords surgically embedded into their bodies. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 10th, 2006.
Catman.
Man transforms himself into a cat via extreme plastic surgery. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005.
Face off.
Cleveland Clinic set to perform first-ever face transplant. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, July 27th, 2005.