That'll be $600.
Posted on 11/04/2019 5:31:42 PM PST by Libloather
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Inspired by a sticky substance that spiders use to catch their prey, MIT engineers have designed a double-sided tape that can rapidly seal tissues together.
In tests in rats and pig tissues, the researchers showed that their new tape can tightly bind tissues such as the lungs and intestines within just five seconds. They hope that this tape could eventually be used in place of surgical sutures, which don't work well in all tissues and can cause complications in some patients.
"There are over 230 million major surgeries all around the world per year, and many of them require sutures to close the wound, which can actually cause stress on the tissues and can cause infections, pain, and scars. We are proposing a fundamentally different approach to sealing tissue," says Xuanhe Zhao, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study.
The double-sided tape can also be used to attach implantable medical devices to tissues, including the heart, the researchers showed. In addition, it works much faster than tissue glues, which usually take several minutes to bind tightly and can drip onto other parts of the body.
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>>When duct tape just won’t do...<<
Or a staple gun. Hey, it worked for diapers..
I got staples for a gut operation one time.
Once again, mother nature to the rescue. Isn’t blind, random natural selection a great thing? /s
Wow, go MIT. Anything to keep wounds clean, heal faster and no seepage. This will save lives.
Variation on the tape stitches they’ve been using for a while now?
Not “wounds”, but internal stuff from surgeries. At least, I think that’s the main thrust.
So I am a fairly safe mayonnaise kind of guy and I have had 200-300 stitches, mostly in my head.
Last time was a fall in the garage into a metal lathe and I got 40 stitches in my mouth to accompany 8 displaced teeth.
They also stitch you up when you have compound fractures(yes, motorbikes will do that to you)
Also when they break your nose they usually do some damage to your lips....more stitches.
(fighting is for fools)
I have become too old to run and too smart to be a victim.
Why not just use transglutaminase? Ain’t no need for fancy double sided tape.
What company is going to manufacture and market this tape?
ML/NJ
So, what happens when time comes to rip the tape off?
Fairly safe???? I've had 5 stitches in 58 years. How do you get 300??
The definition of a wound whether internal or external is the same but I can see how my wording might cause confusion. Internal from surgery is a wound or seepage both( or other) of which is generally necessary to reopen and repair. This certainly is a huge breakthrough.
Yet more medical research Senator Warner wants canceled by reducing medical spending to a minimum for everyone but senators (and maybe House members if enough is left over).
Yes, I could see that. Could be useful for all but hey, we already have little sticky tapes for stitches external.
So I suppose I shouldn’t ask about your FR username ?
I’ve used duct tape on wounds bunch of times
One Time me and wife were kayaking on the islands off Culebra in Puerto Rico and I sat on a knife first night and I duck taped my whole butt cheek and it lasted for all week and I never got infected
Put the tape on dry butt of course !
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