Journal of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants

ISSN for PRINT: 1050-6934

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2001, Volume11

Issue 1&2

110 pages

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Richard F. Edlich
Biomedical Engineering and Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Trauma Specialists LLP, Legacy Verify Level I Shock Trauma Center for Pediatrics and Adults, Legacy Emanuel Hospital, Portland, OR, USA

Charles R. Woodard, BS
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk; Department of Plastic Surgery, Box 800376, University of Virginia Health Systems, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

George T. Rodeheaver, PhD
Distinguished Research Professor of Plastic Surgery. Plastic Surgery Research Program, University of Virginia Health System, P.O. Box 801351 Charlottesville, VA 22908-1351, USA

The purpose of this article is to provide a collective review of the literature on skin staplers. On the basis of this review, the Auto Suture Multifire Premium™, with its regular and wide metal staples, is recommended for skin closure. The Auto Suture Multifire Graftac-S™ is ideally suited for skin-graft fixation, because it delivers an absorbable staple that usually does not have to be removed from the healing graft. Dermal skin closure can now be achieved using the Auto Suture SQS-20™, which coapts the cut dermal edges with an absorbable straight pin. Dermal wound approximation can be accomplished in significantly less time than dermal suture closure.

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