Handing a tool to someone can take more time than using it.

Jax and Buxbaum [Jax and Buxbaum (2010). Response interference between functional and structural actions linked to the same familiar object. Cognition, 115, 350-355] demonstrated that grasp-to-transport actions (handing an object to someone, i.

Microbiologic survey of prosthetic blood pumps presterilization and poststerilization and at explant retrieval.

Device-associated infection remains a major complication of implanted total artificial hearts (TAH). The possibility of microbes being introduced on the device was investigated by conducting a gross microbial assay, pre- and poststerilization, and following explant retrieval. Culture samples were obtained from the housing, base, and blood-contacting diaphragm of Utah-100 artificial ventricles.