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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National Academy of Sciences
2009
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50261 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5048-4109 |