5 matching records for Perma Block.
A device designed to provide analgesia (the alleviation of pain) by applying extremely low temperatures (freezing) to body tissues. The device consists of a cryostat and cooling probe, and sometimes a peripheral nerve-block stimulator (nerve stimulator). Th...
A permanently installed device forming a structural barrier designed to block or attenuate radiation emissions from a primary or scattered radiation source. It includes various solid or transparent barriers typically used to shield patients from unnecessary...
A non-bioabsorbable, metal device intended to be implanted in a non-neurovascular blood vessel, permanently or long-term, to occlude blood flow typically for treatment of an aneurysm, tumour (e.g., nephroma, hepatoma, uterine fibroids), and/or arteriovenous...
A sterile, non-bioabsorbable, metal device intended to be implanted in a non-neurovascular blood vessel, permanently or long-term, to occlude blood flow typically for treatment of an aneurysm, tumour (e.g., nephroma, hepatoma, uterine fibroids), and/or arte...
An implantable device, typically a minuscule plastic clamp, that snaps onto the vas deferens tube to block permanently the flow of sperm to function as a contraception. The device is used as an alternative to vasectomy for male sterilization.