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  2. Surgical staple - Wikipedia

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    Surgical staples are specialized staples used in surgery in place of sutures to close skin wounds or to resect and/or connect parts of an organ (e.g. bowels, stomach or lungs). The use of staples over sutures reduces the local inflammatory response, width of the wound, and time it takes to close a defect. [1]

  3. Drain (surgery) - Wikipedia

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    A surgical drain is a tube used to remove pus, blood or other fluids from a wound, [1] body cavity, or organ. They are commonly placed by surgeons or interventional radiologists after procedures or some types of injuries, but they can also be used as an intervention for decompression. There are several types of drains, and selection of which to ...

  4. Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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    Common time to remove stitches will vary: facial wounds 3–5 days; scalp wound 7–10 days; limbs 10–14 days; joints 14 days; trunk of the body 7–10 days. [ 23 ] [ better source needed ] Removal of sutures is traditionally achieved by using forceps to hold the suture thread steady and pointed scalpel blades or scissors to cut.

  5. IrfanView - Wikipedia

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    IrfanView (/ ˈ ɪər f æ n v j uː /) is an image viewer, editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows. [5] [6] [7] It can also play video and audio files, and has some image creation and painting capabilities.

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  7. Negative-pressure wound therapy - Wikipedia

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    Tubing is connected through an opening in the film drape to a canister on the side of a vacuum pump. [10] This turns an open wound into a controlled, closed wound with an airtight seal while removing excess fluid from the wound bed to enhance circulation and remove wound fluids. [11] This creates a moist healing environment and reduces edema ...

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  9. Talk:Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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    A good rule of thumb is "If there is blood, don't glue." You certainly don't want to pour glue into an open wound. Dlodge 01:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC) If you ( or someone else )are wounded and have no expert medical help available, a wound may be closed using superglue after cleaning and disinfecting. I'm sure there is a ton of videos on it.