OBJECTIVES This study aimed to review the safety of a reusable sealing instrument, BiClamp(®), as an alternative to the mechanical stapler for interlobar fissure division in pulmonary lobectomy. METHODS A retrospective review was conducted of 95 patients who underwent pulmonary lobectomy performed by a single surgeon between November 2005 and March 2010. The patients were divided into two gro...

Currently, tissue adhesives and glues are an alternative technology in clinical applications that are important both to the medical industry and surgical profession. Many of these emerging tissue adhesives could modify difficult surgical procedures by stabilizing tissue surfaces through hemostasis, sealing of wounds, and fixation of tissue in areas inaccessible to staples, clips, and suture pla...

This article examines the quality level of trade between Canada and the United States, 1979–2003, to investigate the relevance of staples theory for Canada. After disentangling the quality levels of trade, it is found that the pattern of quality-level trade changed significantly around the time free trade was established between Canada and the United States. Before free trade, Canada was moving...

Future food security in Sub-Saharan Africa requires enhancement of its crop production. Transgenic crops with a poverty focus can enhance harvests and are available for staples such as cooking bananas and plantains. One constraint is optimisation of national biosafety processes to support rapid and safe uptake of such beneficial crops. Africa needs streamlined regulation supporting deployment o...

Introduction: A T-Skin stapler is a type of skin staple commonly used in the closure surgical wounds on skinslices. Quick and accurate treatment patients required. However, there still limited research comparingthe handling speed tool with other staples.Method: We that built sterile grade 317 L medical metal code SS1 thesurgical thread T-Silk no. 330 S21. created numerous portions goat experime...

BACKGROUND Extracellular matrices (ECMs) are often used in reconstructive surgery to enhance tissue regeneration and remodeling. Sutures and staples are currently used to fix ECMs to tissue although they can be invasive devices. Other sutureless and less invasive techniques, such as photochemical tissue bonding, cannot be coupled to ECMs because of their intrinsic opacity to light. RESULTS We...