NEW ADVANCEMENT FORCEPS FOR SQUINT.

New suture material for squint surgery.

All operations were performed under general anaesthesia using a limbal approach to the insertions of the muscles, similar to that recently described by Fells (I97 i). The 6/o Ethiflex suture was then used in the standard manner employing a "whip" stitch on the edge of each muscle. At the moment the suture is presented with a io-mm. taper-point needle. This is not ideal, but no problems, apart f...

A New Lithotomy Forceps

^ By Suuoeon John O'Neill, M. D., M. Ch., Civil Surgeon, Shahpur. Forty miles distant from the shallt>ur Sadr is the village of Nowshera, approached by a road which in its last twenty miles runs a rough and uneven course over the hilis. Last winter, while inspecting the dispensary there, a man suffering from stone entreated me to afford him relief. He was in a pitiable condition, and could only...

Letter: New forceps for videolaryngoscopic intubation

New forceps for biopsy of peripheral airways.

1 Mullarkey MF, Lammert JK, Blumenstein BA. Long-term methotrexate treatment in corticosteroid dependent-asthma. Ann Intern Med 1990; 112:557-81 2 Shiner RJ, Nunn AJ, Chung KF, Ducan MG. Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial ofmethotrexate in steroid-dependent asthma. Lancet 1990; 336:137-40 3 Erzurum SC, Leff JA, Cochran JE, Ackerson LM, Szefler SJ, Martin RJ, et al. Lack of benef...

A new BB forceps.

Retained intraocular BBs are difficult to remove. According to manufacturers' specifications, BBs have a spherical diameter of 4.5 mm and a copper plate covering a steel core. They have only moderate magnetic properties because of the copper plate cover and they are too large to be grasped by almost all intraocular forceps and, therefore, present a problem when they are retained in the eye afte...