Daily Archives Thursday, March 2007

The Role of Sealants and Glues in Surgery

The terms “sealant” and “glue” tend to be used interchangeably in the surgical context, but in fact there is a difference in adhesive strength between sealants, pioneered by fibrin products (sometimes homemade) and the later, stronger glues of which cyanoacrylate-based products were the leaders.
Fibrin sealants represented a revolution in local hemostatic measures for both bleeding [...]