SPRAY-ON “sticking plasters” can now help heal the wounds inside the body
made during delicate keyhole surgery. The bright blue plasters, sprayed directly
onto organs in the form of a gel, promise to prevent post-surgical complications
that usually mean another operation.
“It’s like an internal wound dressing,” says Amarpreet Sawhney, founder of
Confluent Surgical of Waltham, Massachusetts, the company developing the gel.
Sawhney described the gel last week at BioPartnering, a London biotechnology
conference.
Although similar dressings are already available as biodegradable sheets
(Â鶹´«Ã½, 10 May 1995, p 23), he says surgeons can only apply
these during standard, open…
