Lindsay Tomlinson, from the law firm Irwin Mitchell, who represented Ms Bowett, said: "This constitutes a 'never event' according to the NHS's own patient safety guidelines which recognises that such occurrences are unacceptable and completely preventable if the appropriate procedures have been implemented.
Two different tensioning procedures have been implemented.
Common test and quality procedures have been implemented at each test site.
On one hand, procedures have been implemented for an ultrasound-based registration of bone structures, applicable, amongst others, to the high-accuracy navigation of pedicle screws.
Data-taking and tuning procedures have been implemented along with newly designed readout hardware to support high bandwidth for data readout and calibration.
These stability-analysis and model-reconstruction procedures have been implemented as part of a system that recovers force-dynamic interpretations from video sequences and uses those interpretations to classify the events that occur in those sequences.
Two important improvements in numerical procedures have been implemented; the first is the elimination of unphysical short wavelength disturbances by a smoothing technique; the second is the implementation of the Richardson extrapolation (extrapolation to Δt = 0) technique in the velocity difference equations.
Standardized procedures have been implemented at each site to assure cold chain integrity between collection and receipt in Colorado.
Recently, tomosynthesis-based imaging procedures have been implemented for the purposes of screening for the early detection of breast cancer.
Furthermore, new diagnostic procedures such as photodynamic procedures have been implemented, and the surgical techniques have become less invasive with better equipment and instruments.
