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
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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
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