From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 16:51:25 MDT
--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "You mean they actually ALLOW people to engage in
> elective abdominal
> surgery with only catgut holding them
> together!?!?!?!?!"
>
> If anyone is aware of any new technologies in this
> area, I'd love to
> hear about them.
Google for "surgical tape". Sutures provide some
structural support, useful for deep incisions while
the
body's own connective tissues reattach, but they
simply
don't cover the wound itself.
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