I had follow-up hand surgery to a past flexor tendon injury ~ten days ago (long story) (and yes I've been typing through it) but... Someone write the history of medical tape, and I'll preorder the book.
The steri-strip, the self-adherent coban, the micropore. Amazing tech tbh.
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So I have partial and small wound dehiscence because blah blah necessarily aggressive range-of-motion therapy blah no way to make stitches work well at the metacarpophalangeal joint, blah blah. What did folks do before steri-strips? Oh, right. Suck it up. Suboptimal results.
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Also, my surgery was allegedly "wide-awake" so they could check if the repair worked and I asked my doc if I could *watch*... Anyway, they put me almost completely under. I'm pretty sure there's a note on my file: put her under or she'll ask questions non-stop.
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Tegaderm. Flaming marvelous stuff. Takes a couple of goes to learn to put it on right, but it's onion-skin thin, completely flexible, breathable, & one can shower without the wound going gloopy. Also proper 1st-aid burn dressings - as mundane as you like but lifesaving stuff.
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I probably don't need it but I just want the whole catalog right now. Gonna go order some.
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Sitting in surgery prep, waiting for anesthetic to kick in, realized doc was going to slice the lens out of my eye & replace it w/piece of plastic. Last wk he stuck a tube in, pulled out some crud, left an air bubble to fill up the space until the eye produces more fluid. MY EYE!
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What I want, as a person allergic to some adhesives, is a complete guide to which tapes use which adhesives! I also wish someone in the medical world had told me about Skin Prep protective wipes (I found out about them on the Internet!)
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"Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance” by Atul Gawande. The quote on not requiring genius but moral clarity and willingness to try makes it into a lot of my keynotes.
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We could do with a lot more books on the mundane miracles.
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