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Put a cap on it
Published in Michael Wiklund, Kimmy Ansems, Rachel Aronchick, Cory Costantino, Alix Dorfman, Brenda van Geel, Jonathan Kendler, Valerie Ng, Ruben Post, Jon Tilliss, Designing for Safe Use, 2019
Michael Wiklund, Kimmy Ansems, Rachel Aronchick, Cory Costantino, Alix Dorfman, Brenda van Geel, Jonathan Kendler, Valerie Ng, Ruben Post, Jon Tilliss
The need to cap syringes is obvious. Not only does a cap protect against puncture wounds, it also maintains sterility and prevents the needle tip from getting bent or blunted. The same can be said of the caps (or sheaths) on sharp knives, including those used in kitchens and hospital operating rooms (e.g., scalpels). In the case of disposable safety scalpels, the cap can be integrated into the handle and can slide forward to cover the blade, or the blade can retract into the handle1 (like many box cutters), protecting against lacerations and infections. OK—maybe this is stretching the definition of a cap, but you get the point, noting that the boundaries between what constitutes a cap, sheath, and guard are not exact and clear-cut (pun intended).
The opportunity of using alloplastic bone augmentation materials in the maxillofacial region– Literature review
Published in Particulate Science and Technology, 2019
Simion Bran, Grigore Baciut, Mihaela Baciut, Ileana Mitre, Florin Onisor, Mihaela Hedesiu, Avram Manea
This method requires stainless steel wire (0.3 − 0.5 mm diameter), wire cutting pliers, specially designed wire (needle) holder, periosteal elevator, scalpel, suture materials, osteotome and bone burrs etc. It can be performed in local or general anesthesia and it consists of the following phases:Exposure of cortical plates;Drilling the holes in the cortical plates;Inserting the wire in both the fracture ends or in the bone and alloplastic material;Suture of the mucosal flap;(Depending on the case) Intermaxillary fixation