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Archive for December, 2006
Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Friday, December 22nd, 2006Soriano’s Surgical Retractor in-action
Friday, December 22nd, 2006This is the previously patented surgical retractor developed by Dr. Ángel Raúl Soriano Sánchez (Mexican Ob/Gyn from the National Institute for Social Security – IMSS) in action.
This amazing invention looks useful, isn’t it?
Surgeon stoped at airport with his bloody bag
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
A christchurch surgeon in a post-op rush has sparked a bloody bag at Queenstown Airport. Local medical minister of health Dr. Derek Bell intends referring the incident to the New Zeland Medical Council – he says it was reported to him “there was a blood stain on the bag that was increasing in size”.
Peter Walker, the surgeon who tried to check in his blood-stained laundry bag as hold luggage last Thursday afternoon, told Mountain Scene “diluted watery blood stained the bottom of the sack”.
Walker admits the baggage contained a plastic bag full of used surgery gowns, a blood-soaked towel and surgical instruments in steel trays. Walker denied that the instruments posed a danger, saying they were inside steel trays.
Walker said he always asks patients beforehand if they have infectious conditions like HIV infection or hepatitis. “I knew there was no infectious material at all” He said.
“I only had 10 minutes to spare to get to the airport and, as I was going to load the bag into the car, I said, ‘Oh, there’s a patch of blood-stained water’.”
More here
Hands transplantation
Thursday, December 14th, 2006
A 47 years old woman had both hands amputated 28 years ago. Now she is the first patient in Spain to receive a transplant of both forearms and hands.
This operation was done in La Fe Hospital in Valencia, Spain by the team of hand surgery of the Pedro Cavadas’ Foundation.
This is the 7th similar surgical procedure in the world and the first performed in a woman.
The patient will recover part of her sensibility in a period between five and six months.
Pasteur Institute in Latinamerica opens its gates
Sunday, December 10th, 2006The prestigious Pasteur Institute opeded its gates the past Friday in Montevideo, Uruguay.
“The Institute will be the state-of-the-art and the best of science investigation with the newest methods, methods which explore and try to explain the miracle of life”, said Tabaré Vázquez the president wich is an oncologist.