Medical Devices
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Echocardiography of mechanical mitral valves - A Visual Summary #echofirst #cardiotwitter https://t.co/i2Jdru5DFm
🧵regarding some of the more novel *non-urologic* uses of Foley catheters. It's been almost 2 years since I originally posted this, so many may not have seen this one (and I'll be...
Upgrading a prior 🧵regarding polypropylene ('Prolene') suture: the workhorse suture of vascular surgery, though it also has other applications. As usual, we'll go over some of th...
For all you intubators out there, I'm going to describe two useful bougie microskills 1/9 https://t.co/ptFPGWxmLP
🔬 Exciting News in Immunohistochemistry (IHC) Quality Control! 🔬 Introducing PRS – the Process Record Slides, a revolutionary innovation in #IHC staining quality control that's se...
1/28 You are the resident on CICU. A patient arrives with an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP). What is it? How does it work? How do you troubleshoot? It's ⏰ for a @CardioNerds...
Management of Mechanical Prosthetic Heart Valve Thrombosis: @JACCJournals Review Topic of the Week Fabulous review from the Washington Hospital Center Team...It is dense, but will...
🧵regarding some technical points about passing drains or chest tubes through the body wall. Aside from the normal techniques, we will show what to do with the less common 'troca...
ICU "news": Have you heard about the Doraya catheter? It is percutaneously deployed in the IVC below the level of the renal veins & works as a temporary iv flow regulator -> part...
1/ What better way to end off a week of pacemakers and ICDs than recapping and revisiting our #12LeadThursday series! 🧵 https://t.co/YM2sB2dFb0
1/ 🚨 Pacemakers & ICDs: 5 Pearls Episode 🚨 How do different implantable cardiac devices differ? What are their functions? Who are they indicated for? 🎧: https://t.co/UINbxgyW7c...
🧵of 🧵: we've already covered most commonly used sutures. Today, we cover barbed sutures. The use of barbs wasn't even invented by humans - they are present in many plant and an...
🧵regarding the Combat Application Tourniquet: its parts, how it's applied, some history of tourniquets; and an experiment to see if my mother (75 years old) is strong enough to t...
🧵regarding the CUT and COAG modes of the device commonly referred to as a 'Bovie' or 'diathermy'. Both of these are misnomers, but you know what I mean. We will go over what CUT an...
9/ In cases where the IT pump must be withdrawal, it may be necessary to have a temporary IT catheter to prevent severe withdrawal. this is an EXCELLENT review: https://t.co/9ec...
🧵regarding some observations about the LigaSure device. In December 2022, I accidentally dropped this one on the ground when setting up for an (open) case. Rather than discard it,...
The iGel is a great supraglottic airway device But like other supraglottic airway devices (SAD) it's not foolproof Here's how to maximise your success with the iGel - a thread 🧵...
Today's short 🧵 is on the Hoffman clamp, a device that may only be of interest to a few of you... But I picked it because I enjoy pointing out when simple devices play a key role...
Hemostatic Forceps Tweetorial 🧵: A useful thermal alternative for when you can’t “push” (bipolar probe) and precision work. It’s not just for ESD (Coagrasper). Hot biopsy forceps...
To make my 'instrument' and 'technique' 🧵easier to find here is a (corrected) 🧵listing them all. I'll leave this up as my 'pinned' tweet and add to it as new ones are written.
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🧵 regarding the use of PTFE ('Teflon') pledgets for reinforcing sutures in fragile tissue. We will briefly go over history, then get into technical pointers and examples of wher...
🧵regarding the concept that 'everything is a popoff'. This means is that suture needles can be pulled off the threads even when they are not 'popoff' sutures. This isn't supposed...
Short 🧵on the Shiley XLT ('extended length') tracheostomy tube (or as I like to call it, the 'extra long trach'), which comes in 2 different types, and in particular a small but im...