A novel Veress needle mechanism that reduces overshooting after puncturing the abdominal wall.
Roelf R PostemaDavid CefaiBart van StratenRein MiedemaLatifa Lesmana HardjoJenny DankelmanFelix NickelTim Horeman-FransePublished in: Surgical endoscopy (2021)
A new decoupling safety mechanism was integrated successfully in a standard VN resulting in a VN+ . The results from the pilot study indicate that this new VN+ reduces overshooting with a minimum of 50% in a standardised ex vivo setting on fresh porcine abdominal wall specimens.
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