Anyone with delicate sensibilities may wish to stay off London's transport network one Sunday in January 2025, as the No Trousers Tube Ride returns. For the uninitiated, the event is exactly what ...

Outcomes with the single-purse-string technique for peritoneal dialysis catheter placement have been proven to be similar to the double-purse-string method. A recent study was conducted by Xiaoling ...

If you will be receiving chemotherapy over a long period of time, or if you are a candidate for a blood or marrow transplantation, your healthcare provider may recommend a central line, or central ...

Biomedical industry is a key end-user of SMPs as they are employed in producing a plethora of diagnostic and surgical devices such as catheters, sutures, stents, braces, splints, prosthetics and ...

The complication rate for cystostomy (surgical procedure for insertion of a suprapubic catheter (SPC)) ranges from 1.6% to 2.4%. The first few catheter changes after the initial SPC insertion should ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether staples are better than sutures for scalp wound repair in adults. Altogether 42 papers were found using the reported search, of which four ...

Objective To determine whether there still remains a significant advantage in the use of sutures to staples for orthopaedic skin closure in adult patients. Design Systematic Review/ Meta-Analysis.