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[lowman]

Man can now weld many differents types of metals, and can now even weld many metals together all at once, and can even weld live tissue. I can envision a day when bone will be weldable. Just gotta have the appropriate feedstock (calcium sticks?).

Years ago, I used to send new employees at the truss plant I worked at, to the basement (lol) to get the wood welder. Not as crazy of a thought these days, though we use to get quite a laugh out of it, way back when.

[sojourner]

Re: Wouldn't be something if they figured out how to weld bone?

rossi: Insightful. It turns out this is precisely the question that led Prof. Paton to his live-tissue-connect invention. According to a Ukraine blogger, Dr. Paton, while his broken leg mended, wondered whether bone tissue could be "welded" for quicker healer.

http://onlyinukraine.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html

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(01 May 2005)
Welding Humans!?

On April 27th Ukrainian surgeons demonstrated their Russian colleagues their revolutionary method of stitching human tissue by means of electric welding.

Russian surgeons appeared skeptic at first. “There is no point in this. Surgery is a symphony, ballet; not electric welding,” exclaimed they.

President of Ukrainian Academy of Science Boris Evgenievich Paton once went water skiing and broke a leg. While in a cast, Paton began thinking about global issues of medicine. It was during that time, that the academician was suddenly enlightened with the idea to use electric welding in medicine to heal bones fast.

Academician Boris Paton, while still being a director of the Institute of welding and super hard alloys ordered his staff to develop such revolutionary method. Experiments began. These were the events of 1996.

Paton informed Ukrainian security services of his new invention. Afterwards, medical department of defense headed by Major-General Mikhail Zakharash, has also expressed its interest in the research. Zakharash conducted his first surgery using the new technique introduced by Paton in 2000.

As a result of numerous experiments conducted on dogs and rabbits, it turned out that bone tissues were resistant to electric welding. However, soft tissues could be welded very well.

What needs to be done to weld two pieces of iron? The two pieces have to be connected and melted metal (i.e. welding material) needs to be poured over them. Have you ever seen a welder? He holds a rod-electrode in one hand. This is his welding material. One sees myriads of sparks and the rod begins to melt thus welding the two iron pieces together.

In surgery, according to Paton's method, albumin (intercellular protein) acts as such welding material. Two tissues are connected at first; then the “welding material” is placed on top. Afterwards, light electric current is being administered. The protein heats up reaching 65-70 degrees Centigrade and starts coagulating. As a result, albumin welds the cut. The process is almost absolutely bloodless. The stitch turns out to be ideal. It disappears completely after 90 days.

Main instruments that are used by a surgeon-electric welder are a clamp and tweezers with wires attached to a computer. This computer is the actual welding apparatus. Before the actual surgery, a doctor inputs all of the parameters, since different programs are needed to “weld” one's stomach or one's liver for instance. Different tissue structures require different electric currents.

In the course of two years, Ukrainian surgeons conducted 2100 surgeries. They welded skin, liver, kidneys, lungs, spleen, stomach, intestines, fallopian tubes. Recently, they started working on welding brain tissue. There are currently 6 welding apparatuses in Ukraine. Each costs $20 000 USD.

Dmitry Filimonov

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[maddogs]

Bones no, tendons and ligaments yes.

I'm not sure if we'll miss bones as a opportunity. The net net rev potential on the colon tool, with what we've been told and can figure out on our own, should have a potential
1-200 million $. We won't get all of it, or at once, but a subdivision goal of 25% of this market over 2 years(>< 40 million net net before) seems doable to me as there's no like RF competators and the Surgeons already use a like tool(stapler).

Upside to the equation would be the increase in this procedure
due to aging populace, larger numbers of decisions to do the procedure due to less risk and more comfort for patient.
A upside that will gradualy become effective and in a major way, moreso than anything else, will be the additional LTC tools that will be used in this or any other individual procedure, as they come on line.

Anyway, 40 mill @ 20x could put a smile on your face. For that one subdivision, I mean.

With luck, we will be in FDA by years end for that tool.