A broad array of surgical instruments were used.
"We were told there are over 200 kinds of surgical instruments," he said.
Inside, conventioneers are unloading displays of surgical instruments, orthopaedic furniture and clear plastic canisters designed to store human fat.
* Surgicaltools.com, Mystic, Conn., an online distributor of surgical instruments, to Decker, Glastonbury, Conn., as its first agency of record.
Yang says he expects this new generation of surgical instruments to be in general use within a decade.
He became a trainee maker of surgical instruments before moving into the motor trade, training as a mechanic.
He said his office had subpoenaed Johnson & Johnson for information on the way it markets sutures and an unrelated group of surgical instruments known as endomechanical devices.
Merivel is a trained physician and the King has given him a finely made set of surgical instruments, including a scalpel with the words "Do Not Sleep" engraved on the handle.
In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, the Conmed Corporation, a maker of surgical instruments in Utica, accused Johnson & Johnson of unlawfully coercing hospitals to buy its surgical devices, freezing Conmed out of the market.
The Cooper Companies, a maker of surgical instruments, said it had agreed to buy Ocular Sciences Inc. for about $1.2 billion to become the world's third-largest maker of contact lenses.
The ConMed Corporation, a maker of surgical instruments, said yesterday that it would buy the endoscopic unit of C.R. Bard Inc. for $80 million, gaining products used to treat diseases of the digestive tract.
