A team of engineers is using magnetic force to design new and improved instruments for minimally invasive surgery. The use of magnetic actuation allows them to create tools that are more flexible and ...
This realization led Valdastri and his graduate students - particularly Christian Di Natali and Nicolò Garbin - to develop a new approach to laparoscopic surgery that they call local magnetic ...
CareFusion introduced a 3mm version of its Snowden-Pencer pretzel-shaped laparoscopic retractors. The new retractor fits down a 3mm trocar and is designed to promote faster recovery time, minimize ...
Traverse City-based Thompson Surgical Inc., one of the largest makers of surgical retractors in the world — devices that hold back skin, muscle and organs to allow surgeons better and cleaner access ...
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Medical is commemorating 20 years of wound protection since the first Alexis wound protector-retractor was introduced. The Alexis brand is ...
Pietro Valdastri is convinced that the clever application of magnetic force can make minimally invasive surgery easier and more effective. "In 2007, a team of University of Texas researchers did some ...