# Nikolai Begg: A tool to fix one of the most dangerous moments in surgery

Surgeons are required every day to puncture human skin before procedures — with the risk of damaging what's on the other side. In a fascinating talk, find out how mechanical engineer Nikolai Begg is using physics to update an important medical device, called the trocar, and improve one of the most dangerous moments in many common surgeries.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2014
- Runtime: 9 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/NikolaiBegg_2013X)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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