Surgical Staplers

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TimmyTheTalkingToilet

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Well I have been meaning to ask this since my knee surgery, I was just wondering if you are in the woods and get hurt bad enought that you need stiches, could you use one of these just as a temparory or perminite stickes untill you get back to civilisation for medical attention?

and where can you get one (I think my parrents would be rather mad if I just took the staple gun)
 
yes you could use it.... however, it may hurt....

getting one may be a bigger problem... you'd have to access a surgical supplies outfit... don't know if they'd sell them to you or not...

realize that the surgical staples are used on the outer most layer of a surgical repair.... underneath there is usually other internal, permanent, strong sutures used...

instead of the staples... take super glue or try and access the newer medical glue used for superficial cuts.... i think we pay around 25 dollars for one applicater of the stuff. if you use super glue... it needs to be applied to the outer skin ONLY...after it is pushed/pulled together... and it needs to be reapplied about every two days.

best idea is to get out and go to the nearest medical center for proper cleaning, debredment, and closure....

good luck

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Greg -
May hurt? That one gets my vote for understatement of the year!

Anyway, this brings me to an interesting question of my own. In some outdoor stores I've seen these things - I think they're called suture bandages? I think I saw a doctor/backpacker talking about them on the Outdoor Life Network once too. It is a bandage that is supposed to perform like a suture in the backcountry. Anyone have any experience with these? Do they actually work?
 
I've been lucky enough to never need anything more than those adhesive strips (I almost cut the tip of my index finger off with an x-acto knife when I was young and stupidly cut toward my hand). However, from talking to various people, staples seemed to be less painful than traditional sutures, especially because they are just a quick pain rather than the entire length of time it takes to push a suture needle through the flesh (and doing it properly, for a relatively untrained person, is slow).

--JB

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Well I know it will hurt (more putting them in than taking them out) but I was just wondering if it would be feasible to have one incase of an emergency where the wound is not that deep but very long and wide.

but super glue and duct tape would also work but be rather messy especially if I super glue my hand to my leg and the bottle to my other hand
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Them little suture bandages (Called steri-strips the one time they tried them on me) work in some instances, but not in all. I put a hole in my head (See previously posted embarrasing story) and the medic tried to close it with those strips. Negatory on the strips sticking to hair. I had a doc clean that bad boy out with a toothbrush type device and stick a big ol' fat needle in there. I was convinced it was painful, but couldn't feel much of anything on my scalp. The wonders of modern anesthetics.


Stryver
 
Forget surgical staplers. I didn't even use them when I had a lac. numbed up and cleaned. Why? IT TAKES TWO PEOPLE TO USE!! That is right; one person to hold the wound edges together, another person to apply the staple.

Use paper tape or steri-stips, and get your lac to a doctor as quickly as possible.

Walter Welch MD
 
As of about 9:00 last night I am a new member of the staple club for men. I've got about 10 of these shiny stainless wonders on the top of my head. Did it hurt? Oh yeah. but it was super fast. 2 min. maybe. It occured to me to that this would be The thing for a first aid kit where steri strips arent enough I know that some of the bigger off shore boat have them in there aid kits.
 
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