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The image intensifier as an operating table -a dangerous practice

M. Waseem, FRCS, Specialist Registrar in Orthopaedics

Tameside General Hospital, Fountain Street, Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 9RW, UK.

N. W. Kenny, FRCS, FRCS Orth, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK.

Correspondence should be sent to Mr M. Waseem at 14 Bramble Wood, Firwood Park, Chadderton, Oldham OL9 9UB, UK.

We wish to draw attention to the potential dangers of using the C-arm radiolucent plate of an image intensifier as an operating table.






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