REMOVING A BROKEN GUIDEWIRE IN THE HIP JOINT: TREATMENT OPTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PREVENTING AN AVOIDABLE SURGICAL CATASTROPHE. A CASE REPORT

Removing a broken guidewire in the hip joint: treatment options and recommendations for preventing an avoidable surgical catastrophe. A case report

ABSTRACT CONTEXT: Hardware breakage during hip surgery Heart Health can pose challenging and difficult problems for orthopedic surgeons.Apart from technical difficulties relating to retrieval of the broken hardware, complications such as adjacent joint arthritis and damage to neurovascular structures and major viscera can occur.Complications occurr

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Jam Mitigation for Autonomous Convoys via Behavior-Based Robotics

Autonomous ground vehicle convoys heavily rely on wireless communications to perform leader-follower operations, which make them particularly vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks such as jamming.To mitigate the effects of jamming on autonomous convoys, this Footstools paper proposes a behavior-based architecture, called the Behavior Manager, tha

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