Welcome to The Implant-Register – the global implant platform
Implants help humans in many ways and are welcome to improve life conditions for people desiring reconstructions or corrections of their human tissue as well as transmitting purposes. However, an implant is more than just any replacement part. It becomes part of an individual person. That is why it requires our special attention. There are estimated more than 10.000 different implants known, to be incorporated in human bodies - constantly increasing.
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The doctor-patient relationship and the commercial use of health data in the EU
A common European health data network is planned in the EU (European Health Data Space – EHDS). Problems are seen in the fact that the relationship of confidence and the doctor’s duty of secrecy must be maintained. The sovereignty of the data should remain with the patient. The EHDS is intended to manage secondary use…
Internationally different ratios for hip endoprostheses.
According to the OECD, there are 204 hip replacements per 100,000 people in the USA, 315 in Germany, 128 in Spain and 68 in Israel. How long do patients in Germany and the United States stay in the hospital and rehab after hip replacement surgery? In Germany, about 10 nights in the hospital and twenty…
First-in-human prediction of chronic pain state using intracranial neural biomarkers
Chronic pain syndromes are often refractory to treatment and cause substantial suffering and disability. Pain severity is often measured through subjective report, while objective biomarkers that may guide diagnosis and treatment are lacking. Four individuals with refractory neuropathic pain were implanted with chronic intracranial electrodes in the anterior cingulate cortex and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). We…