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FDA Assessing Safety of Surgical Staples for Internal Use

The agency plans in the coming months to issue a draft guidance with labeling recommendations for manufacturers and to hold a public advisory committee meeting to discuss whether the current pathway ...
WBUR

Why Patients May Be Put In Charge Of Their Own Post-Operative Care

A surgical staple remover looks a bit like a handheld hole punch. Not the alligator-mouth contraption used for paper staples. I know this because my father recently had a radical prostatectomy to ...
Medscape

Sutures vs Staples: Which Is Safer Following Orthopaedic Surgery?

Is it safer to use sutures or staples for skin closure after orthopaedic surgery? The authors performed a meta-analysis of reports published in the past 60 years and found that only 6 of 194 ...
Business Wire

Zip Surgical Skin Closure Demonstrates Superior Health Economics and Clinical Outcomes Compared to Surgical Staples in Two Recently Published Clinical Studies

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZipLine Medical, Inc. today announced publication of positive results from two significant clinical studies in two peer-reviewed journals demonstrating that use of ...
Medical Xpress

Sutures not superior to staples for closure in GI surgery

(HealthDay)—Compared with standard procedure using staples, skin closure with subcuticular sutures does not reduce the incidence of wound complications after open gastrointestinal (GI) surgery, ...
Business Wire

Patients and Physicians Prefer Zip Surgical Skin Closure over Staples in First Head-to-Head Comparison of the Device versus Staples During Bilateral Knee Surgery

CAMPBELL, Calif. & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZipLine® Medical, Inc. today announced results from the first study to assess Zip® Surgical Skin Closure versus surgical staples for closure in the same ...
Ars Technica

Stitches or Staples what is your post-surgery preference?

After 65 years of experiences with stitches after surgeries and accidents, I have staples for the first time. A photo of my current stitches doesn't reveal exactly how they are removed. I've removed ...