student question for urology consultants

[student898]

I am a final year Engineering student at Glasgow University and am researching for my project. I am focusing on medical product design. I am very keen to help my understanding by to talking to the user, however I am struggling to find contact details for surgeons. I have prepared a number of questions. If you have any free time when you could answer this questionnaire it would be of great help to me and my project.


Name: Age Under 40 Under 50 Under 60 Over 60.

Q1. What surgical field are you active in.?

Q2. How long have you been active in this field?

Q3. How many open abdominal surgeries using a midline incision do you perform each year?

Q4. What age group would you perform these procedures on?

Q5. When would you use a self retaining abdominal retractor?

Q6. Which retractor would you use?

Q7. What do you like about this retractor?

Q8. What problems do you have with this retractor? and why?

Q9. What would you feel could make a retractor better? and why?

Q10. What surgical instruments do you find easy to use and why?

Thank you for answering these questions.

[shorter56]

Hi, noticed that this post is old? does anyone post in the urology thread anymore? Anyway, I am not that qualified to answers those questions yet but my professor is, I will get him to answer and post the results...

[shorter56]

Q1. Abdominal surgery and Prostate Surgery

Q2. 21 years

Q3. 10-23

Q4. 50-70

Q5. 5 out of 10 times

Q6. O'Sullivan-O'Connor

Q7. The Set of two blades, 80 mm x 45 mm

Q8. None

Q9. If it had an extra set of blades

Hope those answers help your survey, it got me some brownie points when asking my professor. Doing a report on prostate and erectile dysfunction, I to will post a survey at http://www.edguider.com/ and once it is ready I will ask for some volunteers to help me.

Thanks and I hope I was able to help.