SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NEW MEDICAL ADHESIVES THAT CAN HELP HEAL MILLIONS OF PATIENTS
April 2nd, 2020
While medical teams worldwide seek to free up hospital beds to care for Covid-19 victims, attention is turning to effective wound care for patients to hasten healing following surgery, avoid cross contamination in a hospital and enable proper care at home following direct clinical supervision. And medical adhesives, some with life-saving qualities, are a focus of such efforts, manufacturers claim.
Packaging surgical tape in individual single-patient use rolls can help reduce Covid-19 contamination rates, a researcher from adhesives manufacturer 3M, based ...
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