Currently, the synthetic materials or bioprosthetic replacement devices for cardiovascular surgery are imperfect and subject patients to one or more ongoing risks including thrombosis, limited durability and need for reoperations due to lack of growth in children and young adults.
This paper outlines a design process to develop 3D printed medical devices for reconstructive surgery in a specific patient who had congenital, oncological or traumatic fracture cases in the face and/or skull.
The internal marketing presentation, disclosed by an Australian newspaper, The Age, was produced in 2007 by a Medtronic division in that country that sells devices for spinal surgery.
When Mr. Acker, a retired inventor of devices for cardiac surgery and neurosurgery, acquired the property in 1998, he wanted to "keep the continuous 300-year farming tradition" but "found green peppers and tomatoes a pretty boring set of crops," he wrote in an e-mail.
In this paper, several experimental analyses have been performed, complemented by the use of Abaqus/CAE finite element analysis, in order to develop a high-power ultrasonic cutting device for bone surgery using a new configuration of cymbal transducer, which is optimised for operation at high displacement and high input power.
The first device for stereotaxic surgery was described in detail in 1908 by British neuroscientist and surgeon Sir Victor Horsley and British physiologist Robert Henry Clarke.
Our aim was to design a new bioresorbable fixation device for craniomaxillofacial surgery based on reinforcement of fibres between 2 different polymers.
Hence, we developed a 3D-printed simulation device for orbital surgery with tactual (haptic) correct simulation of all relevant anatomical structures.
In this study, we introduce a new prototype ultrasonic cutting device for bone surgery based on a class V flextensional cymbal transducer, configured for use in power ultrasonics applications, which removes many of the geometrical restrictions on the cutting tip of Langevin-based transducers.
Peter is the CEO of a company called EnHatch, and during the day he works on creating apps to help promote, demo, and sell medical devices for use in surgery.
