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No, Simon, you are not hallucinating about superglue sterility. Look at the JAEM September 2000 No 5, p 341, for a thorough experiment which showed that repeated glue ( Indermil) use is safe bacteriologically, and is in fact bacteriostatic. ( A bug capable of breeding in superglue, now that would be worth investigating.) As for viral transfer from patient to glue pot to patient, I do not see how this is feasible if a new needle is used each time. Paul Ransom ---- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:34 AM Subject: reuse of wound glue > I am convinved that I have seen a paper on glue that > looked at > > 1. Tensile strength > 2. Whether you could grow anything from it > > over a period of 3 weeks > > However, I can find nothing on Medline nor in the > conference abstracts from the FAEM meeting (though I > think some posters did not make it into the abstracts > published in JAEM). > > Does anyone else remember this or am I hallucinating > over research projects (again). > > Simon > Simon Carley > SpR in Emergency Medicine > http://www.bestbets.org > [log in to unmask] >