During clinical trials with human subjects, microMend was three times faster to apply than sutures, and both healthcare providers and patients preferred the device to sutures and staples in 90 percent of cases.
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Unlike physical sutures, nano-suturing cuts down on scars and inflammation.
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Surgeons are even rationing procedures because of a shortage of sutures.
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In all cases, the substance worked without need for sutures or staples.
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Top row are wounds closed with microMend, bottom row with conventional sutures.
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For an even more realistic touch, Freakmo bought some surgical staples and sutures.
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It involves getting sutures sewn into her face as an alternative to fillers.
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It has practical applications to things such as improving surgical sutures, he said.
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The robot sutures held up to higher pressures than those made by human surgeons.
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But shortly after, infections long simmering inside their young bodies erupted from their sutures.
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Click here to view original GIFAnd this is definitely not how sutures are performed.
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Sutures, nasal turbinates, inner ear bones, sinus cavities, real teeth, pathology, natural imperfections, etc.
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This is a book about men's violence against women; the sutures are often literal.
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They could use it to build strong fabrics and possibly even surgical sutures, for example.
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With three tiny sutures, Deschamps-Braly reattached the scalp, moved slightly forward, to her skull.
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Having verified that the procedure was a success, the doctor carefully sutures the patient back up.
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The Steri-Strips and nose and chin sutures, by the way, came off after four days.
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They challenged each other to use robotic arms to put sutures into a squishy, synthetic tissue.
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She stabilized her patient, controlled the hole in his stomach and began closing the wounds with sutures.
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The sutures are under a lot of tension, and if the patient moves, they could pop out.
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In short order, doctors, nurses and EMTs arrived at the door with sutures, scissors and other supplies.
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"The robot makes the decision of where sutures should go, based on vision and pressure," Kim said.
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She snipped excess thread from sutures and learned how to identify a patient's veins on an ultrasound.
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To attach the heart, surgeons use a suction device, sutures, and a gel to help with any friction.
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Silk material is now also being used for sutures, scaffolds, grafts and a vast selection of biomedical implants.
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The black loops drawn by bees among the grass blades seemed to pick at my grandfather like sutures.
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When she began to dilate again, the doctors removed the cerclage sutures before they could tear through her cervix.
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Most wounds are closed using sutures or staples, but oftentimes these "mechanical" approaches cause further tissue damage and stress.
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The only substance detected was Lidocaine, an anesthetic agent used to numb the engineer for sutures in the hospital.
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Luckily it was fine, but I would've liked to have some sutures in the medical kit just in case.
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With a few sutures, Deschamps-Braly sewed Abby's eyelids shut, to insure that her eyes remained moist and protected.
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Though the pong of rotting flesh has since subsided, and the sutures have healed, his limp is likely permanent.
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"We're assuming because of the sutures is why the ear migrated to the top of her head," Vorhees said.
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I, in addition to the Steri-Strips across my nose, had bristly, black sutures under my chin and nose.
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DNA sequencing and an analysis of cranial shape and sutures suggested that the skull fit the Elder's general profile.
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This fall she brought me to her home when the sutures of romantic love that held me together had snapped.
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If people engage in vaginal sexual activity too soon, they can tear through sutures, and that becomes a real emergency.
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When it came time to operate, doctors gave the family a shopping list: On it were sutures, antibiotics and gloves.
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Surgeons attach sutures to the two ends of the food tube and pull them out through incisions in the child's back.
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Some gruesome still pictures of a monkey with sutures around his neck have been circulated, but that is not reliable evidence.
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Comparison with human surgical work revealed that it was at least consistent, placing sutures more evenly than its meat-space counterparts.
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"What are you — he had like 50 sutures in the shape of an iguana mouth on his cheek," Ms. Tibbetts said.
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The coffin was half open, revealing a girl in a white dress with large, poorly concealed sutures holding her neck together.
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The device covers the entire wound, so an additional layer of adhesive strips isn't required as frequently as with sutures or staples.
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When it's hit by a laser, the dye can form sutures that close a wound—as long as it's not too deep.
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Slight pressure is typically exerted on the sutures or connections between the cranial bones, and sometimes also on the neck and spine.
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Supplies became so scarce, she said, that doctors grew accustomed to dispatching patients' relatives to pharmacies to buy gloves, sutures and gauze.
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Patients said it was more comfortable to wear and have removed than sutures, and that it did a better job to facilitate healing.
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Curreri instructs Mago to keep the wound clean, perhaps with antibiotic ointment, and to have the sutures removed in seven to 10 days.
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It's possible that tissue where skull bones meet is reabsorbed, shrinking the braincase volume, and then regenerating those same sutures in the spring.
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He was carted off the field and taken to a hospital, where three sutures were put into his head to close the wound.
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He attached three sutures to the inside corner of Kevin's mouth and gently pulled, to gauge exactly where the muscle should be attached.
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The hospital does do emergency C-sections, but only if the patient provides a kit with all supplies — gloves, sutures, gowns and syringes.
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Some present threw rocks and bottles at police officers, and an officer suffered a "serious cut" to his hand, requiring sutures, Moore said.
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The device won't completely replace the need for staples and sutures, but it could dramatically reduce our reliance on these old-timey medical technologies.
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Right now, a patient's options are pretty limited to sutures and staples, which can be challenging to use in hard-to-reach, internal places.
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A certain medical dye will stick together when hit by a laser, effectively suturing a wound without the need for staples or traditional sutures.
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"A bandage was placed over the exposed bone and soft tissue, which they secured with sutures," a post on S.A.F.E.'s Facebook page says.
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Your surgical sutures are now less expensive and we can produce complex parts for cutting edge applications that are the backbone of modern technology.
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"Lip threading involves passing miniature threads or sutures through a small tube to elevate the skin and create a degree of tension," she explains.
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The Taurus' arms are affixed with plier-like pincers that can pick up and manipulate various tools like a scalpel, sutures or a screwdriver.
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The two employ a dearth of weaving and sewing techniques, including a pattern normally used for sutures, to give the sculptures their own unique textures.
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Those who deliver the latter (the weight of an average house cat or a medium sized bowling ball) are worthy of our respect, and sutures.
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Then, on Sunday, National Geographic will debut LA '92, which sutures together television clips from the time, with no other content besides minimalist string music.
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The Annenberg Space for Photography maps the complex landscape of walls and rends, openings and sutures, that, to an ever-larger degree, defines our age.
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And Dr. Kalish said there was a very difficult moment for Jeff in the initial removal of the bandages and the cleaning of the sutures.
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"Glass Guignol: The Brother and Sister Play" sutures together several of Tennessee Williams's dramas, using his relationship with his sister, Rose Williams, as the thread.
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The profession requires not only rigorous mental learning, but manual dexterity too—the fine motor skills to make tiny sutures and guide laparoscopes through the body.
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A winning montage of '60s Yugoslav movies sutures scenes of parties and love affairs in the new towers that arose in cities and at the seaside.
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"I think they had kind of given up," she says, but she decided to give it one more try and was able to put in more sutures.
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I would tell you the gripping medical details of my facial reconstruction, and you would look at me and my whiskery black sutures with compassion and respect.
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For those who stick to domestic and approved Chinese sites, the browsing experience is speedy and seamless, the sutures where unwanted content has been excised barely visible.
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"When we met, it was just a few days after her sutures had come out and less than a month since she'd lost her legs," said Kofkin, 31.
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Fixing those can require surgery and small, delicate sutures; healing can take months, Thanik says, and not everyone regains total feeling or range of motion in the end.
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My husband had to come to Colombia to buy everything for the birth — gloves, face mask, needles, sutures, anesthetic, diapers — and bring it to the hospital ahead of time.
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Vargas, a left-hander, threw a bullpen session on Saturday but still had the sutures in his right hand so he was not allowed to catch the ball for himself.
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The stent, called Absorb, is made of a plastic similar to dissolving sutures and offers patients an alternative to metal stents currently used to prop open arteries cleared of blockages.
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Dr. Reis grapples with the likes of long-overhand shoelace knotting, climbing knots, basket weaving, surgical sutures, and how to pass on the art of surgical-knot craftsmanship to robots.
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Five months later, surgeons cut Kaine's scalp from ear to ear, separated the bones in his skull and inserted sutures that would dissolve over time as his bones grew back together.
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A large clinical trial released in October concluded that the Absorb stent, which is made of a plastic similar to dissolving sutures, was comparable to Xience in overall safety and effectiveness.
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Image: KitoTech MedicalA Seattle-based startup has developed an innovative "skin closure device" that exhibits the anchoring strength of sutures and staples, but is nearly as easy to apply as a bandage.
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At the Luis Felipe Guevara Rojas Hospital in El Tigre, signs at the maternity ward inform women in need of Cesareans to bring their own antibiotics, needles, surgical sutures and IV drip.
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Munson said Paisley's tongue swelled so much in the postoperative period that the sutures loosened and the tongue separated, but doctors were able to sew it back together with no further issues.
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Some of these materials are already used in existing, non-electronic bioresorbable implants sutures; others are naturally occurring in the body, and are recommended parts of a daily diet (silicon and magnesium).
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Surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence has evolved over the past two decades from open abdominal operations to support the bladder with sutures to less invasive procedures that insert mesh slings instead.
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That doesn't mean it can never return, but for now, once my sutures have been removed and my bruises have changed from blue to yellow to green to gone, I will be healthy.
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The Annenberg Space for Photography exhibition, W|alls: Defend, Divide, and the Divine maps this complex landscape of walls and rends, openings and sutures, that, to an ever-larger degree, defines our age.
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She pays membership fees at a primary-care clinic that offers free, unlimited visits and online consultations, which works well for younger employees who might simply need sutures or a strep-throat test.
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He looked at using Spidrex to make artificial bone, and also tested it for use as dressings and sutures, but he eventually settled on knee replacements -- an area in desperate need of new solutions.
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From above, it is easy to spot the graves: They appear in updated satellite images as rows of upturned dirt in local fields and in vacant lots across the city, like sutures across the landscape.
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It's understandable that you'd want to play with your new toy ASAP, but Elist recommends exercising patience while dissolvable sutures break down and what he calls a "capsule" forms between the skin and the prosthesis.
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In Hubley's case, her lawyers say her placenta was not removed after birth and that there was a tear in her vagina that wasn't treated with sutures, which they say could have contributed to the infection.
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This makes me feel really bad, until I remember that there are also the anatomical realities here: Sewing it all back together with multiple layers of sutures is not just for aesthetics; this is a repair job for that muscle.
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"Painful erections are quite common for the first few weeks," Elist says, explaining that new patients are prone to waking up at night, every 90 minutes, as their engorged penises tug on the new sutures anchoring the Penuma in place.
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Its moments of disconnect from "ordinary" reality, as when a character holds up a hand to show a long set of fresh and spiky-looking sutures on her wrist, are meant to provoke — specifically, in a way that's anticapitalist and feminist.
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Basic sutures are challenging in such a small space, she said, and the model allows her to focus not only on what she's doing in a given moment, but plan her next steps and guide herself away from "danger zones" containing critical arteries.
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"So, I'm going to transpose connective tissue from your palette, put it on the exposed root material, pull the receded gum over the top of it and secure it in place with sutures," she said as if the whole thing wasn't super weird.
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She wants to hit 2,000 cc's, but Peterson is already dealing with complications from her past surgeries — she developed an infection after the sutures from one procedure wouldn't heal, and one of her areolas has expanded to twice the size of the other.
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In contrast, the older type of surgery known as an open coloposuspension requires cutting through the abdomen to reach the bladder and then using sutures to support the neck of the bladder, the group of muscles that connect the bladder to the urethra.
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Dr. Marashi then sews multiple rows of sutures into the perineal body, starting from further inside of her vagina until he gets to the outside, where he finishes with a row of stitches up from her anus to the new, lifted bottom of her vaginal opening.
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An impressive medley of aesthetic strategies (rips, sutures, holes, fragments, patches, stitches, wrappings, knots) combined with a startling array of painterly, handmade and found materials (repurposed fabric, linoleum, metal, charred wood, grommets, burlap, natural straw, leaves, root, hair, blood, latex rubber) characterize the visual lexicon of this pioneering artist's work.
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Doctors have three main ways to cut costs: improve the condition of patients before surgery, look for savings in every item used in the operating room (gloves, gowns, syringes, surgical tools, sutures, sponges and the implant itself), and send patients to nursing homes that strive to shorten the length of stay.
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The guidelines range from simple precautions such as ensuring patients take a bath or shower before surgery and ensuring surgical teams use the best possible methods in cleaning their hands, to advice on when to give antibiotics to prevent infections, what disinfectants are best before incision, and which sutures doctors should use.
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