The disease has also been transmitted by blood transfusion and infected surgical equipment.

The hospital hygiene company, which specialises in sterilising linen and surgical equipment, has raised 22.6 million through a placing of shares.

The code also covers issues like decontaminating surgical equipment, cleaning wards and keeping patients properly informed.

Pools of blood stain the floor and discarded gloves and surgical equipment are piled in the corners.

The hospital has some of the most sophisticated diagnostic and surgical equipment, including that for keyhole surgery, in the country.

These membranes are painstakingly stitched into the wall itself with surgical sutures.

Later, a manufacturing plant was built, where production of several medical products began, mainly surgical sutures.

It started out making tennis racket strings, violin strings, and surgical sutures but soon expanded into baseball shoes and tennis racquets.

A special manufacturing process removes the outer irritant sericin coating of the silk, which makes it suitable as non-absorbable surgical sutures.

Eves received six surgical sutures after hitting her head during the altercation.

The previous picture showed an oxygen pump on the floor, alcohol pads for cleaning the skin before injections, surgical tape and latex gloves.

Surrounding the bed are alcohol pads used for cleaning skin before injections, a roll of surgical tape and a box of latex gloves.

He was given heat treatment and massage, swathed in surgical tape and had his right side regularly packed in ice.

A boxer's hands are allowed to be wrapped only with gauze bandages, using surgical tape to hold the bandages in place.

Use surgical tape to help with angles and symmetry.

Midnight brought brief respite for the surgical team as they slept on the theatre floor.

I was injected around my crown with anaesthetic and the surgical team cracked on.

This built-in telephone allows the surgical team to speak directly to the hospital laboratory.

They work as members of the surgical team and perform surgical interventions and preand post-operative care under the supervision of a senior surgeon.

His patient, too weak for a general anaesthetic, was awake with an epidural, a screen shielding him from the surgical team and their electric saws.

Developing effective ways of repairing the organ was not simply a matter of surgical technique; it also meant clearing away the superstitious flotsam of an earlier age.

We must pay more attention to the staff's hand hygiene, to the equipment used to deliver medicines or oxygen, and to proper surgical technique.

Patients with pre-existing corneal disease require additional consideration to the surgical technique to maintain optimal postoperative safety outcomes.

For the thoracic surgical technique, a small (5 cm) incisions over the 2nd or 3rd intercostal space.

There are different types of pyeloplasty depending on the surgical technique and patterns of incision used.

They might be the oldest surgical tool in the world.

Surgical tools take the body apart and also repair it.

The surgical tools are no longer in use.

We meet a gallery of well and lesser-known eighteenth-century characters and learn more than we might wish about surgical tools and methods for cutting away broken limbs.

Use engineering skills and principles to solve medical problems, for example by designing new artifical limbs, developing equipment used in rehabilitation or creating new robotic surgical tools.

Then, from 6am to 8am, the doctors were subjected to a battery of tests to measure their cognitive skills, including carrying out virtual operations using a surgical training system.

Gamers are the target market but it has also been touted for use in military and surgical training.

However, after almost losing a patient during a thyroidectomy, he decided to undertake formal surgical training.

The organisation publishes recommendations for developing and improving surgical training, including the role of simulation.

While most of this technology has been used for general surgical training, it has also been used to plan specific surgeries as well.

Then, 110 wounded people flooded into the emergency surgical unit in six hours.

Locking a theatre for this length of time would ruin the schedule of any general acute surgical unit.

He was transferred to the surgical unit where he served as a surgical assistant.

It housed a number of departments, including the emergency department, the surgical unit and a new nursing care unit.

Continued expansion began in 1982 and included a new surgical unit and a seven-bed recovery area.

Every day in a general or surgical ward costs 400 per patient.

She was kept on a surgical ward for five days before being taken to an ordinary ward when doctors decided not to operate.

The patients all spent time on the surgical ward where the nurse works.

We worked together on a surgical ward from early last year.

Recovering in the surgical ward was another story.

It was quite a dramatic wound - as they were, of course, because it isn't like a surgical wound.

As for my leg, it has a deep surgical wound that requires packing with alginate rope - seaweed - every other day.

After establishing anaesthesia, the surgeon de-epithelializes each edge of skin by undermining it 3to4 mm, with a razor scalpel, thereby facilitating the closing of the surgical wound without tight sutures.

Surgical wounds and puncture sites get infected when in hospitals.

However, his surgical wounds became infected, and he was bedridden for six months.