This would work, too..........
Posted on 11/26/2008 10:17:37 AM PST by Nachum
Surgeons of the future may have to learn welding rather than sewing, now that a team of applied physicists at Tel Aviv University have developed an efficient and safe way to close incisions in the skin that they say could also be used on cuts inside the body.
Dr. David Simhon performs the experimental 'welding' procedure. Photo: Courtesy of Tel Aviv Universtiy The team was led by Prof. Abraham Katzir, who found a way to maintain laser heat at the correct temperature so that the incision is sealed to minimize the risk of infection and scars and speed healing.
Katzir says the development is "a groundbreaking medical technology" and could also be used quickly and easily by medics on the battlefield and at road accidents, as well as by plastic surgeons and other surgical specialists.
Katzir is the son of the late Prof. Aharon Katzir, the world-famous biophysicist who was murdered in the 1972 Japanese Red Army terror attack at Lod Airport; he is the nephew of Israel's fourth president, 92-year-old Prof. Ephraim Katzir.
The Health Ministry, which studied the technology carefully, gave permission for the first clinical trials in 10 gall-bladder surgery patients a few months ago.
The test procedures were performed by Dr. Doron Kopelman, head of the general surgery department of Emek Medical Center in Afula, and Dr. David Simhon, who was a partner in the TAU research.
The results on patients were judged recently and found to be very successful, with comparisons made between the parts of the incisions closed by sutures and the parts using welding.
Now the team will see how the welding technique works on longer incisions, such as those in cesarean sections or inguinal hernias.
"The technique of sewing the human body with needle and thread is an old one that has existed for thousand of years," Katzir noted.
"Modern medicine has advanced in many fields. Now the time has come to upgrade one of the most common and important procedures in surgery - sealing the two sides of an incision.
"Suturing often requires much skill, creates scars and always opens the possibility of infection through the wound, because sutures are not watertight. Using more advanced techniques such as pins or speedy glues can often create large and ugly scars that remain on the body for years and cause much distress. Our new technique is meant to solve these problems."
Back in the 1970s, surgeons used a laser to try to fuse together the two flaps of skin, but it caused burns that disrupted the skin's ability to heal and even encouraged scarring.
But Katzir and his team use another technique called "laser welding" in which biological glue - a special albumin protein produced by the Israeli biotechnology company Omrix - is smeared on the two sides of the incision.
Then a laser warms it at the correct temperature to make the glue thicken and create a hard "shell" that protects the wound and allows it to heal speedily without allowing pathogens to enter.
They used a temperature-controlled carbon dioxide laser and special silver halide optical fibers that they developed. The technology prevents overheating and burns.
The breakthrough has aroused world interest and is presented on the Web site of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21687).
The TAU team will soon apply to the US Food and Drug Administration for authorization to carry out larger clinical trials of the procedure. If they are as successful as the operations so far, the technology could be turned into a commercial product in a few years.
Sad they cannot come up with a simple brain implant procedure for the 78% of liberal Jews in America who voted for the Indonesian student listed as “muslim” on his school records. Ditto for 50% of Catholics.
Another Star Trek gadget come to life.
I hear Arab crickets chirping.
lol
Dr. McCoy from Star Trek, performing surgery with a hand held device emitting a light beam on a clothed patient.
This would work, too..........
Genesis 18:18
Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.
My thoughts precisely.
Right now, I use super glue on cuts about 1 inch or less.
I had those same thoughts when reading the article then I thought: Geez only the smart productive ones will be lost in the upcoming war with Iran. May God save their hides.
“I hear Arab crickets chirping. “
Really? I hear them chanting Death to America and Death to Israel.
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As the palestinians work on techniques for creating wounds. And giving medals to the killer of 4 year olds.
Meanwhile, Muslim nations are still trying to perfect the stoning of females and the manufacture of toilet paper.
They ripped Bones of Star Trek off. He was the first to use this procedure. BTW, will this become part of that “How Star Trek Changed The World” show on the History Channel?
Well, duh. Ambrose Paré, the 16th century French surgeon often viewed as the Father of Battlefield surgery described cauterization of wounds during the Italian campaigns.
That is what it was designed for.
Great groundbreaking technology, but the article title is misleading. The wound is glued with albumin heated by Laser. It is soldered, not welded.
Albumin is used as a solder.
welding of protein surfaces is not possible.
Technically, no.
From: Was Super Glue invented to seal battle wounds in Vietnam?
Super glue, Krazy glue, Eastman 910 and similar glues are all a special type of glue called cyanoacrylates. Cyanoacrylates were invented in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover of Kodak Laboratories during experiments to make a special extra-clear plastic suitable for gun sights. He found they weren't suitable for that purpose, so he set the formula aside. Six years later he pulled it out of the drawer thinking it might be useful as a new plastic for airplane canopies. Wrong again--but he did find that cyanoacrylates would glue together many materials with incredible strength and quick action, including two very expensive prisms when he tried to test the ocular qualities of the substance. Seeing possibilities for a new adhesive, Kodak developed "Eastman #910" (later "Eastman 910") a few years later as the first true "super glue." In a now-famous demonstration conducted in 1959, Dr. Coover displayed the strength of this new product on the early television show "I've Got a Secret," where he used a single drop placed between two steel cylinders to lift the host of the show, Garry Moore, completely off of the ground.
The use of cyanoacrylate glues in medicine was considered fairly early on. Eastman Kodak and Ethicon began studying whether the glues could be used to hold human tissue together for surgery. In 1964 Eastman submitted an application to use cyanoacrylate glues to seal wounds to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Soon afterward Dr. Coover's glue did find use in Vietnam--reportedly in 1966 cyanoacrylates were tested on-site by a specially trained surgical team, with impressive results...
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