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. (Contributor), Slocum, Alexander H. (Contributor), Masiakos, Peter T. (Author), Pryor, Howard I., II (Author), Farokhzad, Omid C. (Author), Karp, Jeffrey Michael (Contributor)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences, 2009-12-28T19:14:53Z.
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