A NEW ANASTOMOTIC CLAMP.

A New Eyelid Clamp

A new bronchus clamp.

Bronchus clamps for use in lung resection have never been entirely satisfactory. The very large number of models available make this plain. When lung resection presents no problems almost any model of bronchus clamp is suitable. In a technically difficult situation all have shortcomings. The basic requirements of a bronchus clamp are: 1. It must be easy to pass with the minimum of dissection of...

A new stomach clamp.

An efficient stomach clamp is one which exerts an even and sufficient pressure across the whole width of the stomach without causing undue trauma at any one point. Very few stomach clamps at present obtainable fulfil these conditions satisfactorily because they ate mainly constructed on the ' bow handle ' principle, or are of the crushing type. All clamps of this type necessarily exert most pre...

Early, minimally invasive closure of anastomotic leaks: a new concept.

Chronic pelvic sepsis after ileoanal or coloanal anastomosis precludes ileostomy closure and, even if closure is ultimately possible, function of the neorectum is badly affected. Early closure of the anastomotic leak might prevent chronic pelvic sepsis and its adverse sequelae. In our experience of early closure in a consecutive group of six patients with a leaking low anastomosis (five with il...

Vettath's anastomotic obturator: a simple proximal anastomotic device.

BACKGROUND Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting has been shown to improve the postoperative course of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery, but the need for side-clamping the aorta to perform the proximal anastomosis is still a risk factor for causing neurologic injury postoperatively. Hence, our endeavor to fabricate an obturator to perform the proximal anasto...