title: Initiatives in the biomedical industry.
abstract: Achievements in the healthcare industry are related to the needs of the patients and the surgeons. Often a new technique in surgery forces industry to produce products to fulfil the needs of the new techniques. Laparoscopic surgery is a good example of this. The reverse is also true: that new discoveries in industry allow new procedures to be created around the new industrial achievement. Joseph Lister once said 'success is attention towards detail', a truism just as opposite today as it was 100 years ago.
authors.affiliation: Ethicon Ltd, Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Capperauld
mesh_terms: D001458:Bandages; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004465:Economic Competition; D005544:Forecasting; D007221:Industry / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008954:Models, Biological; D014014:Tissue Adhesives; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D014014:Tissue Adhesives