09:21 minutes · Filmed Nov 2013 · Posted Jul 2014 · TEDxBeaconStreet 2013
Before any laparoscopic surgery, the surgeon has to make a small puncture — and that single moment carries the most risk of the entire procedure. In a fascinating talk, find out how mechanical engineer Nikolai Begg is combining ideas from both engineering and medicine to update a medical device called the trocar, and make that puncture much safer.Watch now »Method; Innovation