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Back in the operating room, Michler prepares for the first incision--a small round hole through which the robotic arm will enter the left side of Oaks' chest. First goes the camera, then the miniature forceps and finally a tool called a cautery, which will be used to isolate the...
An hour later, several inches of the artery are dangling from the chest. While Michler and his team have the go-ahead from the FDA to attach the artery robotically to the beating heart, Michler's team is waiting for a better instrument to stabilize a small area on the...
More anomalies piled up. The mummy had gas in its abdomen and pelvis, suggesting faulty preservation techniques. Its brain had been extracted through the mouth, while Egyptian mummies had theirs removed through the nose. An incision in the abdomen looked suspiciously like a stab wound. Some of the woman's...
In April 1955 pathologist Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy at Princeton (N.J.) Hospital on the cadaver of Albert Einstein. After determining that Einstein died of a burst aneurysm in the abdominal aorta, Dr. Harvey veered just a bit from protocol by making a circular incision in the great man's...
No matter how many books you may have read on the subject of labor and delivery, when you're going through it for the first time, you don't really know what to expect. So, if an obstetrician offers to shorten the time it takes for your baby to be...