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Now more than ever, you have to plan ahead for surgery. As recently as 15 years ago, most patients checked into the hospital the night before their operation and stayed at least a day or two to recover. Today more than 60% of all operations occur on an outpatient basis...
In TMR a surgeon makes a small incision in the left side of the chest and exposes the left ventricle, the chamber that forces oxygenated blood into the arteries. While the heart pauses between beats and fills with blood, a laser is used to shoot a minuscule hole through the...
The problem might be solved by long-acting local anesthetics. Berde and his colleagues at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have patented time-release beads that contain a commonly used drug, bupivacaine. Injected into a surgical incision, the microscopic beads may block pain for a week, possibly reducing...
Meyer, luckily, is a pro. He has been working with sharks for years, and deftly avoids the open jaws. The last step before releasing the specimen is to tag it, a job Meyer assigns to me. I take a steak knife and stab an inch-long, inch-deep incision into...
Sharks that are at least 10 ft. long get a 6-in.-long cylindrical beeper deposited inside an incision in the belly. Every time the shark nears an acoustic receiver anchored on the ocean floor, it leaves a record of its visit. Based both on these records and on open...