Surgical tools

VG Extruded, injection molded, thermo-formed and machined Autoclavable surgical tools, coil forms, pump housings, valves, pipe... 

Tin is soft and it does not rust. It is used to coat steel in tin cans, watch parts, coffee pots, and surgical tools to protect the articles from rusting. 

Because of its hardness and noncorrosiveness, tantalum is used to make dental and surgical tools and implants and artificial joints, pins, and screws. The metal does not interact with human tissues and fluids. Since tantalum can be drawn into thin wires, it is used in the electronics industry, to make smoke detectors, as a getter in vacuum tubes to absorb residual gases, and as filaments in incandescent lamps. It has many other uses in the electronics industry. 

The six platinum group metals, platinum, palladium, ruthenium, osmium, rhodium, and iridium, usually occur together in nature. These metals are not often found in artifacts. These metals are rare and have only been widely used in industry and for ornaments since the early twentieth century. Most platinum used today is as a catalyst in the systems used to control car exhaust emissions, in dentistry, and to make surgical tools, jewelry, and electrical equipment. 

Uses.—Iridium, both native and alloyed with platinum, is used in the construction of scientific apparatus. The native metal, on account of its hardness, has been employed for pivots, etc. Alloyed with platinum, chiefly for stiffening purposes, it has found application in the manufacture of surgical tools, since it is permanent and non-corrosive. For the same reason the alloy containing 10 per cent, of iridium was used in the construction of the standard metre and kilogram. 

Rhodium and iridium are very unreactive metals, not being attacked by aqua regia (a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid). Iridium is alloyed with platinum to produce a ery hard alloy, which is used for the tips of gold pens, surgical tools, and scientific apparatus. Representative compounds are Rb.Og, KgRbCl, Iro 3 and... 

Italian, Antonio Grignolo. Both were interested in retinal detachment, a blinding eye disease, and wanted to contribute to the understanding of the cause of the disease and to improve the diagnostic and surgical tools available for therapy. Both of them were in Dunphy s department at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and were actively involved in research. 

For many years, CVD TiN has been used for wear-and erosion-resistant applications. TiN has a low coefficient of friction and is relatively chemically inert, which makes it attractive for this purpose. In addition, the coating of stainless steel with TiN is of interest for increased biocompatibility of surgical tools and human implants. The reactions used to deposit TiN are very similar to those used for the deposition of Ti02. TiCU is the most common titanium precursor. Nitrogen or ammonia can be used as the nitrogen source. 

Co steels are hard and are used for drill bits and surgical tools. 

Pallidotomy has been an efficient surgical tool for treating patients who no longer responded adequately to L-DOPA therapy, and it is still indicated and performed in certain complex cases. Its efficacy is due to the fact that no electrophysiological stimulation in the pallidum is less deleterious than the overstimulation caused by the loss of dopaminergic projections from the substantia nigra. 

Nanotechnology involves the ability to arrange molecules and atoms into molecular-structirres. This will have major impacts on computation (higher density of computational power), materials (properties of catalysts and shengths of structures), and tire manufacture of tools and devices (surgical tools and instrrrments of molecular- dimensions), capable of intervening at the fundamental level of disease. 

All surgical tools (items 2-5) are from Fine Science Tools,... 

Polyethersulfone (or polyarylsulfone) can withstand exposure to cold sterilants, disinfectants and germicides, and its applications are mainly in surgical tools. 

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Stenkula S. Sodium hyaluronate as a vitreous substitute and intravitreal surgical tool. Rosen ES (ed) Viscoelastic Materials Basis Science and Clinical Applications. New York, Pergamon Press, 1989, S. 157-160... 

While there have been several promising research outcomes reported on animal studies, it would require much more systematic studies on the consequences and side effects of the APP before adopting the non-thermal APP treatment to actual clinical studies. As a side note, the classical argon plasma coagulation (APC) device, which is a type of thermal plasma of a high temperature, has been used as a surgical tool as a comparable tool to the laser ablator or electrical scalpel [10, 72, 73], but we leave this out to the references because it is beyond the scope of this chapter. 

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