NEW INSTRUMENT.

Pancreatitis Quality of Life Instrument: Development of a new instrument

OBJECTIVES The goal of this project was to develop the first disease-specific instrument for the evaluation of quality of life in chronic pancreatitis. METHODS Focus groups and interview sessions were conducted, with chronic pancreatitis patients, to identify items felt to impact quality of life which were subsequently formatted into a paper-and-pencil instrument. This instrument was used to ...

Cardplay, a New Textual Instrument

W e are exploring what it means to 'play' textual literature. We don't mean, by this, playing games that incorporate textual material within their structure but rather textual and literary structures for which play is a primary means of interaction. We are conducting our exploration both as creators and scholars of digital media. This paper discusses a number of related issues — including the n...

New weight limit for instrument sets.

Lamellar Keratoplasty: a New Corneal Splitting Instrument.

THis new aid to corneal grafting has been designed to facilitate and simplify the operative procedure of lamellar keratoplasty. The instrument, a combination of blunt dissector and a cutting knife, has been used successfully as the basis of the new splitting technique in which an exact replica of the corneal disc removed from the recipient globe can be matched and replaced by a similar disc of ...

A New Neurosurgical Instrument : A Micro - Vibrato -

O B J E C T I V E : We developed an instrument (a dissector tool with micro vibrating system) to make make brain tissue dissection easy and safe. Method: We used this instrument and conventional technique to dissect 18 fresh cadaver sheep brains (9 of them were dissected by the vibrating-dissection technique and the remaining 9 with a conventional dissector). Dissection and separation were grad...