From: Ziana Astralos (ziana@extrotech.net)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 18:43:58 MDT
(04/21/2003 18:24) mlorrey@yahoo.com wrote:
> Googled. Nothing seems to apply to what I am talking about.
> ...
> While I was in the Air Force, the military started using superglue for
> skin cuts, sutures, etc. as a quick means of sealing a wound far better
> than sutures are capable of. I guess I had assumed that by this time,
> 13 years later, that medical advances had developed adhesive sealants
> for subcutaneous suturing applications. Perhaps involving some sort of
> hypoallergenic polymerizing that acts like a sort of super-clotting that the
> body can then heal through quicker.
>
> Such an adhesive would have immense applications in trauma cases, especially
> in disaster/triage situations, where bleeding and sterilization are
> significant problems.
http://www.biospace.com/ccis/news_story.cfm?StoryID=11713420&full=1l.com9
http://www.tifac.org.in/do/hgt/case/bioadh.htm
http://www.collagenex.com/pr_atrisorbD.asp
(all from Google ;-) )
Looks like it does exist, it just doesn't appear to be very commonly used yet.
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