Basic Knee Arthroscopy Part 1: Patient Positioning

Basic Shoulder Arthroscopy: Lateral Decubitus Patient Positioning.

Shoulder arthroscopy offers a minimally invasive surgical approach to treat a variety of shoulder pathologies. The patient can be positioned in either the lateral decubitus or the beach chair position. This note and accompanying video describe the operating room setup for shoulder arthroscopy in the lateral decubitus position, including positioning of the arms, head, and sterile preparation and...

Patient Satisfaction with Knee Arthroscopy under Local Anaesthesia

Objective: Material and Methods:

Basic ostomy management, part 1.

Pneumatic Servo Bearing Actuator for Ultraprecise Positioning – Part 1: Principle and Basic Performance

Tomoko Hirayama, Takakazu Kitagawa, Masato Kadotani, Hiroki Danjyo, Takashi Matsuoka1, Katsumi Sasaki2 and Hiroshi Yabe3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Doshisha University 1-3 Miyakodani, Tatara, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan Pneumatic Servo Controls Ltd. 2266-22 Anagahora, Shimo-Shidami, Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyoto University (former affiliati...

Drawdown Automata , Part 1 : Basic Concepts

The choice of the term drawdown automata is deliberate; that is exactly the purpose for which we’ll use them. A cellular automaton, as a whole, passes through a succession of configurations corresponding to the states of its cells. The automaton goes from one configuration to another at discrete intervals of time, the states of all its cells changing in parallel. The change of state of a cell i...