Sentences with phrase «patients under the knife»

If things went wrong and you were the patient under the knife, you hoped to be in the care of a surgeon who knew how to use those instruments with great skill.In the late»80s, work began at SRI International on medical robotics.

Virtual reality simulated training can teach vital skills to surgeons before they take patients under the knife.

Not exact matches

Patients often die before they can come under the doctor's knife.

Free - floating images could help doctors practice surgery before the patient goes under the knife, says physicist Barry Blundell of the University of Derby in England, whose commentary appears in the same issue of Nature.

Currently, patients must either go under the knife to mend faulty cartilage (connective tissue that normally pads the ends of bones at joints to keep them from grinding against one another).

Rise of the machines The current reality, however, is that most patients will opt for nonimplantable BCIs because of the risks involved in going under the knife.

Two patients share their stories about their decision to go under the knife.

Dr. Lee highlights the following for her patients before they go under the knife.

However, like all types of surgery, there are certain risks associated with going under the knife and this often a last resort for pseudogynecomstia patients.