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Soft Robotic Catheter for Beating Heart Surgery

A shape-shifting robotic catheter could make heart surgery safer
“Based on an octopus-inspired device previously created by Ranzani, it incorporates a [MORE]

Self-Folding Soft Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Self-folding soft-robotic chains with reconfigurable shapes and functionalities
“Here, we [robotic engineers at ETH Zurich] present a class of magnetic soft-robotic [MORE]

Clot Blasters

Nanodroplets and US for hard-to-reach clots
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technology for using nanodroplets and an [MORE]

Flexible Heart Catheters

Electronic- cardiac catheter
“[R]esearchers [at George Washington and Northwestern Universities] have developed a new type of catheter that conforms well with [MORE]

A Robot that Draws Blood and Inserts Catheters

Robot draws blood accurately
“As healthcare staff can find it difficult to see the vein they are attempting to access, complications [MORE]

Robotic Catheter for Clearing Brain Clots

Robotic guidewire to clear brain clots
“Engineers at MIT have now developed a steerable guidewire that responds to a magnetic field [MORE]

Optical Flow Sensor Measures Blood Flow Velocity

Probe measures changes in blood flow
Engineers at Australia’s Flinders University have developed a thin catheter that measures small changes in [MORE]

A Self-Propelled Catheter

Robotic Bronchoscope
The conventional means for looking into lung’s airways is a camera-carrying bronchoscope with additional tools for taking a tissue [MORE]

It Looks Like a Speck of Dust; it is a Catheter Chip for Internal Imaging

Chip to Visualize Heart in 3-D for Surgery
First, think of an ultrasound device with 56 transmitters and 48 receivers, then [MORE]

Minimally-Invasive Mitral Valve Replacement

Neovasc-Tiara Mitral Valve
Since 2002, heart surgeons have been able to use a catheter in performing aortic valve repair, and since [MORE]

Smart Catheters

Infections arising from healthcare-associated catheters cause 99,000 deaths in the US annually and an enormous cost for those who [MORE]

“SwabCap” Reduces Catheter-Use Infections

Swab Cap
Recalling the old saying that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, the “luer-lok,” between [MORE]

Mapping Heart Activity with a Sensored Catheter

Multi-sensor Heart Catheter
A stretchable array of silicon sensors that detect temperature and electrical activity in the heart could be [MORE]

Dr. John Simpson-Angioplasty Pioneer

John Simpson, MD, PhD
German physician Andreas Gruentzig invented balloon angioplasty in 1977, but University of Texas physician and bioengineer John [MORE]