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Briefs: Design
Part 2: Designing Piezo Handpieces for Ultrasonic Surgery
Part 1 of this article , which ran in March 2023, looked at the general structure, design variants, and system design of ultrasonic medical handpieces. Part 2 now reviews driver design, special applications, drive electronics, and failure mechanisms.
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Briefs: Design
Part 1: Designing Piezo Handpieces for Ultrasonic Surgery
Part 1 of this article looks at the general structure, design variants, and system design of ultrasonic medical handpieces. In a future issue, Part 2 will examine driver design, special applications, drive electronics, and failure mechanisms.
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Features: Software
Overcoming Blockers to Digitizing Manufacturing Operations
The digitized manufacturing environment is here and continues to gain momentum. For many companies in the life sciences arena, industry 4.0 is a business strategy.
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Features: AR/AI
2023 Tech Trends: Why Digital Health Will Lead to Improved Patient Care
While many wearable technologies began as a way to help people improve fitness, they have evolved to take on much greater diagnostic and other medical uses.
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Features: Wearables
Show Preview: Biosensors for Medical Wearables
With potential in remote patient monitoring, diagnosis, and detection of disease, biosensors and wearable devices are gaining substantial interest.
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Briefs: Connectivity
Medical Device Integrators Can Ensure Data Accuracy and Patient Safety
In the absence of true standards of medical device communication, medical device integration is a proven, reliable solution for accurate and timely delivery of those data to the various systems and applications running throughout a healthcare organization. While some device...
Applications: Medical
First Totally Implantable Hearing Device
Hearing loss can occur as a result of aging, genetic predisposition, an illness or injury, or over the course of years of exposure to loud sounds, which cause intense vibrations that damage the hair...
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Mission Accomplished: Medical
Web-Based Programs Assess Cognitive Fitness
Astronauts, pilots, air traffic controllers, truck drivers, shift workers, and mountain climbers have something in common: All are at risk for impaired cognitive abilities due to stress or sleep...
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INSIDER: Materials

Hydrogels: The Future of Bone Implants

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INSIDER: Medical

Adaptable Drug-Delivery Platform Accelerates Next-Gen Medicine

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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Sweat-Powered Sticker Turns Drinking Cup Into a Health Sensor

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Features: Medical

Inside the OEM: Intuitive’s Next Chapter — Scaling Robotics, Data, and...

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Briefs: Medical

AI-Generated Sensors Open New Paths for Early Cancer Detection

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Blog: Design

De-Risking Medical Device Development with VA Technology Transfer

Ask the Expert

Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
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Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.

Webcasts

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Editorial Webinars: Materials

Next-Generation Materials for Medical Devices: From Smart Polymers to...

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Podcasts: Design

How Smart Implants and AI Robotics Could Transform Neurological Surgery

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Podcasts: Design

How Tissue-Based Approaches Are Enabling Long-Term Implants

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Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control

Training the Future of AI-Powered Surgery

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Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control

Making Human-Centered Robotics Work in the Real World

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Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control

The Hidden Nervous System of Surgical Robotics: Power, Data & Sensing Behind...

Inside Story

Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.

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