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Comparison of Celox Gauze haemostat with kaolin based gauze
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Received February 2009 Accepted August 2009 INTRODUCTION Term of gossypiboma (textiloma, cottonoid, gauzoma, and muslinoma) is used to describe a retained surgical pad or gauze in the body after an operation. Retained postoperative foreign bodies, of which sponges are the most common, is a preventable condition and almost always iatrogenic.(1,2) Gossypiboma may present acutely or subacutely and...
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Fig. 1 A typical tubular dress. But is it as safe as you think? To the Editor, Tubular gauze finger dressing is a commonly applied wound covering (Fig. 1). The total number of applications per year is unknown. In many emergency and clinic situations, its application is delegated to the more junior clinic staff. How much training with this material the people using it have is another unknown. Se...
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BACKGROUND Estimating intraoperative blood loss can be a difficult task, especially when blood is mostly absorbed by gauze. In this study, we have provided an improved method for estimating blood absorbed by gauze. OBJECTIVES To develop a guide to estimate blood absorbed by surgical gauze. MATERIALS AND METHODS A clinical experiment was conducted using aspirated blood and common surgical ga...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1897
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm189708121370703