Medical Devices
49 Threads
"Hey what’s this funny donut 🍩 stuck on the crash cart?" It's a 🧲 magnet! We keep it there because it can be life-saving if applied over a pacemaker or ICD. A 🧵about magnets, pa...
so Let us have a look at these Weck Hemolok clips you speak of. a 🧵 https://t.co/Z1O7XLIcKY
Slow-motion video of a Veress needle going through a cardboard box. A short 🧵 https://t.co/0qhVACTFbw
Quick 🧵 showing what the “G2” Blue Rhino dilator looks like. For those that may not be familiar, the Blue Rhino is the dilator that you use to establish the tract during a week pe...
You may have seen the 🧵on nonurologic uses of Foley catheters - head/neck edition (link at the end)... Now let's finish it with nonurologic uses of Foley catheters - torso edition...
🧵of 🧵's. We've done chromic...now for one of the most versatile of all sutures...polydioxanone or PDS. As usual, we'll go over some properties, a little history, and some of what...
Weekend Digest Name the Pathogen Five Clues 1. Lipophilic #yeast 2. #Biofilm 3. Catheter-related #fungemia 4. #Folliculitis / #pityriasis 5. #Newborn / #ICH immunocompromised hos...
Slow-motion video of the often disparaged technique of ‘punching’ a 15 blade through the skin to create a 5 mm laparoscopic trocar site. Usually after the abdomen has been insuffla...
Today's 🧵continues our exploration of scalpel blades with an opinion about a simple and common surgical maneuver. Very often, you have a small skin incision and you need to make i...
In the future, both here and elsewhere, we’ll be going over the contents of these boxes and other aspects of surgical tools and history. It is unavoidable that some brand names wi...
Today's 🧵is on the Gigli saw: Some of its uses, how to use it, and a little of its history (including its obstetric origin), and the sad fate of Leonardo Gigli. https://t.co/n3Uek...
The ubiquitous SH needle, used for many applications. It stands for ‘Small Half’ circle. There are also MH, LH, XLH, and even XXLH…not shown here. It turns out that all of the n...
17For Part 2 of our #Tweetorial on the basics of mechanical circulatory support (MCS), we will look at different device options. 🦾⚙ https://t.co/m6zMIbsSkM
Thread with information about the implantable CGM @EversenseCGM E3 from a media briefing I was invited to. 1. They began an at-home-insertion pilot in Texas, US with @UrgentCare2go...
Thread/ A $90m micro-cap, capital-light compounder $PDEX Pro-Dex manufactures autoclavable, battery-powered, and electric multi-function surgical drivers and shavers used primar...
This @ASGEendoscopy is so high yield! 👉 clotbuster = 💪 👉 Use the clear cap to create an underwater environment 👉clip in ⚔️ and you’ll likely get the vessel 👉 ask the patient to...
ANESTHESIA MACHINE is a medical device used to generate and mix fresh gas flow of medical gases and inhalation anesthetic agents for purpose of inducing and maintaining anesthesia...
Dr. Jennifer Sherr is currently presenting on @myomnipod Omnipod 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System in Very Young Children with T1D at #ADA2021. https://t.co/bk7uhJ2icJ
Quick tip: Lamina spreader for distal radius fractures. Radial inclination, Radius impingement into the DRUJ can be addressed like this. Takes a couple of minutes. #OrthoTwitter...
In this thread we will talk about Cardiac Monitor ( Purpose of use , Types , its function , patient assessment ) let’s start 🤩.. https://t.co/gxVYWiPSiP
Keep your eyes on Vent. waveform, you might need to change the tube despite theraputic anticoagulation. Commonly seen in #COVID19 patients. #CriticalCare #Ventilators #ICU https:/...
In this thread, we will talk about: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) 👇🏻 https://t.co/o14Kw4Wm9a
Yesterday, we started testing the first prototype of our medical ventilator project. This is the result of the selfless contributions of many PhD students, technicians, postdocs, a...
As the coronavirus ravages the U.S. health care system, the scarcity of ventilators has been forcing doctors to make life-or-death decisions about who gets to breathe and who does...
