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Richard Chole

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Lindburg Professor and head of otolaryngology

Expertise: bacteriology, bone biology, inflammation, hearing, signal transduction

Bio: Chole is known for developing the oto-endoscopic camera and a prosthetic device that functions as a replacement for middle ear bones damaged by injury or infection. His current research aims to understand the mechanisms which are operant in the pathophysiology of inflammatory osteolysis in the middle ear in chronic otitis media and the cellular and molecular control of the resorbing cells, the osteoclasts.

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Avoiding big mistakes

Anti-theft technology used to help prevent wrong site surgeries (http://www.wsoctv.com/health/9452992/detail.html)

July 7, 2006 --
CheckSite bracelets are designed to prevent wrong-site surgeries.
CheckSite bracelets are designed to prevent wrong-site surgeries.
Employing the same technologies department stores use to prevent theft, WUSM physician Richard Chole recently developed the CheckSite wristband to help prevent wrong site surgeries. In an eleven-year span from 1995 to 2005, more than 450 case of wrong site surgery were reported to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.


Alarming surgery

Smart wristband designed to prevent wrong-site surgery (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/5547.html)

Aug. 9, 2005 --
CheckSite bracelets are designed to prevent wrong-site surgeries.
CheckSite bracelets are designed to prevent wrong-site surgeries.
In the near future, an alarm sounding outside the operating room door may have surgeons reaching for their pens. That's because a new device has been designed to alert the surgical team if a patient's incision site hasn't been marked.



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Why Johnny's ears always hurt
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

July 12, 2006 -- Parents of the millions of young children who suffer from chronic ear infections can blame bacteria that collects in drug-resistant colonies for their kids' misery, researchers at Allegheny General Hospital have discovered. Independent expert Richard Chole, head of otolaryngology in the School of Medicine, comments.


Invention aims to avoid wrong surgeries
Associated Press via Kansas City Star and 4 others

Aug. 11, 2005 -- The third most-often reported medical mishap is wrong-site surgery.
A device invented by a St. Louis ear surgeon and WUSTL otolaryngology head Richard Chole soon may provide a very loud reminder to mark the right spot before the patient is sedated. Otherwise, an alarm will sound outside the operating room door.
The device, consisting of a patient wristband embedded with a chip and a marker pen with a specialized sticker that deactivates the chip, is aimed at correcting the communication breakdown that sometimes results in the mishap.



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Related Links:
•Chole's Otolaryngology Web page (http://oto.wustl.edu/chole/)
•Chole's DBBS Web page (http://dbbs.wustl.edu/DBBS/website.nsf/RIB/4B65854FF5D77E6E86256D4E005B2CE1)

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