A NEW BONE 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...

The Saskatoon Clamp-TM: a new anti-incontinence device.

he problem of male urinary incontinence has received much less attention than its female counterpart. Although numerous procedures have been developed to cure incontinence in females, males to a large extent have had to make do with stopgap measures. This may be due in part to the lower incidence of stress-induced incontinence in males. However, several factors, including an aging population an...

A new clamp for bilamellar tarsal rotation for trachomatous trichiasis

the SAFE strategy for avoiding blindness and pain from trachoma. It often has to be performed by non-specialist workers in remote places. The World Health Organization (WHO) is rightly promoting bilamellar rotation as a standard operation, 1 but its method presents difficulties even for trained surgeons. 2 In the technique described by WHO, the lid is held by two artery forceps; however, it is ...