Design of a mechanical clutch-based needle-insertion device

Insertion of trocars, needles, and catheters into unintended tissues or tissue compartments results in hundreds of thousands of complications annually. Current methods for blood vessel cannulation or epidural, chest tube, and initial trocar placement often involve the blind pass of a needle through...

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Main Authors: Bassett, Erik K., Slocum, Alexander H., Masiakos, Peter T., Pryor, Howard I., II, Farokhzad, Omid C., Karp, Jeffrey Michael
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50261
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5048-4109