A few millimeters of the fiber inserted surgically would be enough to overcome the repulsing effects of scar tissue.
Cochlear implant, electrical device inserted surgically into the human ear that enables the detection of sound in persons with severe hearing impairment.
She can hope to achieve it only by having silicone in the shape of chicken fillets inserted surgically, and potentially dangerously, into her breasts.
The collection demonstrates the lengths to which people have gone to improve their hearing, including rubber fans that were held in a person's mouth to absorb vibrations; cornets attached to the head with elaborate bands; and, recently, cochlear implants that are inserted surgically.
Next up are brain implants, tiny computer chips inserted surgically directly into the brain itself.
ACTRN12610000076077 Peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheters are inserted surgically or laparoscopically into the peritoneal cavity for the initiation of PD.
Technical success was achieved in all patients and compares favourably with catheters inserted surgically and previous reports of this technique [ 11– 15].
The equipment used included heparinized polyvinyl chloride tubing, a membrane oxygenator (Quadrox Bioline; Jostra-Maquet, Orleans, France) and venous and arterial femoral cannulae (Biomedicus Carmed; Medtronic, Boulogne-Billancourt, France) inserted surgically.
An appropriately sized tracheostomy tube (average size 7 10) (Portex, Smiths Medical, Australia) is inserted surgically into the trachea via a 3 cm transverse incision made between two tracheal rings at approximately 6 tracheal rings distal to the cricoid cartilage.
Next, an incision was made in the right jugular vein, and a 4- to 5-cm length of Micro-Renathane tubing (0.12-inch ID; 0.25-inch OD) prefilled with heparinized saline (1 1) was inserted and surgically secured.
Of notice, peripherally inserted central catheters and surgically inserted long-term central venous catheters others than TIVAP were not considered for the study.
