February 2012
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January 2012
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Patients to be frozen into state of suspended...
Patients are to be placed into a state of suspended animation when they undergo surgery by using a ground breaking technique that freezes their bodies to the point of death.
Surgeons are pioneering a method of inducing extreme hypothermia in trauma patients so that their bodies shut down entirely during major surgery, giving doctors more time to perform operations.
The technique helps to...
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Medicoscopy: A Diary of a Very Tired Med-Student
A blog about the nuances and experiences of a 3rd year medical student at Loma Linda Medical School:
medicoscopy.wordpress.com
Go check it out!
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December 2011
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Suturing Techniques
mednotize:
I’ve been doing some suturing practice which came alongside with some research. This is the horizontal mattress suture technique. It is usually used for closing high tension wounds or wounds on fragile skin as it has two points of tension in each side of the wound. This helps to spread the tension along the edges of the wound. This is the vertical mattress suture technique. It is...
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November 2011
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