A DRAPE FOR COMBINED INCISIONS

Combined wedge resection and beveled penetrating relaxing incisions for the treatment of pellucid marginal corneal degeneration.

PURPOSE To evaluate a new surgical approach for the treatment of pellucid marginal corneal degeneration (PMCD). METHODS Prospective, noncomparative, interventional case series. Ten eyes of 10 consecutive patients were included in the series. Inclusion criteria were a clinical diagnosis of PMCD, topographic astigmatism >10 D, and contact lens intolerance. The patients underwent an inferior arc...

DRAPE: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Power Efficiency

Development of a novel disposable lid speculum with a drape

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical use of a newly-developed disposable lid speculum with a drape. METHODS LiDrape® is a cylindrical device that consists of two flexible rings of polyacetal resin with a transparent elastic silicone sheet attached to the rings. The novel device holds the eyelids between the rings, and a hole in the center of the device provides a surgical field. We used the novel...

Abdominal Incisions

The abdominal parietes depend to a large extent for their arrangement upon the survival and evolution of those structures which are of use in the economy. We should therefore expect, as we find, that the normal anatomical arrangement of the abdominal wall, as the outcome of evolution, is the standard of perfection, the ideal of the wise surgeon. In our reverie we may look back to the time when ...

Unidirectional Fabric Drape Testing Method

In most cases, fabrics such as curtains, skirts, suit pants and so on are draped under their own gravity parallel to fabric plane while the gravity is perpendicular to fabric plane in traditional drape testing method. As a result, it does not conform to actual situation and the test data is not convincing enough. To overcome this problem, this paper presents a novel method which simulates the r...