We still use gut in the operating room, usually following treatment
with chromic to slow the absorption by the body. I use "chromic gut"
all the time. Mind you, I'm already banned from donating blood in the
USA for life because I lived in the UK for 2 years.
From the suture supplier website:
An absorbable, sterile surgical suture composed of purified connective
tissue (mostly collagen) derived from either the serosal layer of beef
(bovine) or the submucosal fibrous layer of sheep (ovine) intestines.
Danny
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Taco Walstra
<[1]wals...@science.uva.nl> wrote:
On 11/16/2011 11:26 AM, R. Mattes wrote:
Yes, I had exactly the same question.
Apart from this: is gut not used in many medical situations to
string people together after cutting by a surgeon for example, or is
this perhaps done these days with other materials (nylgut? ;-) )
Taco
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:08:14 +0100, Luca Manassero wrote
Dear List,
as Mimmo explains in a video (unfortunately in Italian) on
his
facebook page, the original beef gut regulation in EU was due to
fear
of the so-called "mad cow" disease transmission.
Excuse my ignorance, but since when are gut strings made out of
beef gut? I always assumed that Aquilla's gut strings are made from
sheep gut.
Cheers, Ralf Mattes
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