The letter from the joint task force

Kevin McGregor / BBCSerhiy Maksymenko's team removed the shrapnel from Serhiy's heart'I make a small incision and insert the magnet'Cardiovascular surgeon Serhiy Maksymenko shows footage of the metal fragment trapped in Serhiy's beating heart before it is delicately removed by a thin magnet-tipped device.and it pulls the shrapnel out.

Fragmentation wounds have increased due to the changing face of war.these injuries are becoming more common.Dnipro cardiac centerThe magnetic extractor that removed the shrapnel from Serhiy's heartWhat began as a field tool has now been rolled out across Ukraine.

and because they take a long time to find he believes this device could be a game changer.Drones often carry weapons and materials which fragment and cause more complex shrapnel wounds.

creating flexible models for abdominal surgery.

But then all the doctors who use these devices should be incarcerated too.A rudimentary version was trialled in the 1950s.

as well as being deployed without a technician.It could lay the groundwork for an off-world internet not dissimilar to that of Earths.

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