Scalpels

Disinfectants are used in janitorial suppHes for hospitals and the home to treat toilet bowls, floors and walls in sick rooms, operating rooms, and wherever infective microorganisms are a problem. Instmments such as scalpels, scissors, catheters, and endoscopes used to invade tissues are treated with disinfectants, as are dental instmments. Laws require that hospital waste must be disinfected so that bacteria and vimses, such as the hepatitis vims and the AIDS vims, do not infect hospital workers and people in the community. 

These quenched and tempered stainless steels are ideal for things like non-rusting ball-bearings, surgical scalpels and kitchen knives." ... 

The extent to which these new tissue adhesives and hemostats will influence surgical procedures can be seen in the following analogy. An effective carpenter cannot create a masterpiece without a saw to cut wood, nails to ensure local fixation of separate pieces of wood, and glue to cause broad surface apposition between wood surfaces. Similarly, the surgeon presently uses a scalpel to cut and divide tissues as well as a suture to create local fixation of tissues, but until... 

Grinding, cutting Inserts Twist drills Whetstones Industrial knives Circuit-board drills Oil-drilling tools Slitter blades Surgical scalpels Saws... 

Sulamanidze MA, Salti G, Mascceti M, Sulamanidze GM (2000) Wire scalpel for surgical correction of soft tissue contour defects by subcutaneous dissection. Dermatol Surg 26 146-150... 

Metal instruments (including scalpels) Autoclave Dry heat Sterilization Dry heat Cutting edges should be protected from mechanical damage during the process... 

Use of tools or glassware that can easily puncture or slice skin razor blades, pins, scalpels, pointed tools, dissecting probes, broken glass Practice common-sense behavior and follow guidelines for use of the tool. Go to your teacher for first aid. 

Gluckman, Laurie. Alchemy and its relationship with medicine in philatelic perspective. Scalpel Tongs 35 (1991) 49-51. 

Schwartz, Adolf. Leonard Thumeysser zum Thurn (1531-1596). Scalpel Tongs 44 (Mar-Apr 2000) 23-24. 

Verdaasdonk R.M., Boris C., Ray tracing of optically modified fibertips 2. Laser scalpels, Appl. Opt. 1991 30 2172-2177. 

Figure 9.31 AFM image of a scalpel scratch used to determine the thickness of the polyethylene films grown on a Cr0v/Si02/Si(100) model catalyst. The polymer thickness correlates linearly with the reaction time (adapted from Thiine et at. [90]).

What stops me Perhaps it is queasiness about the surgeon s scalpel. Risks accompany any kind of surgery. Perhaps I find the idea of paralyzing my facial muscles somewhat repellent and a betrayal of the emotions I have experienced—the joys and loses of a lifetime—that are (30) written in those crow s feet and worry fines. Perhaps yet, it is my earlier feminist fervor and idealism—a remnant of my youth that I believe is worth preserving more than wrinkle-free skin. 

Disa, J.J., Vossoughi, J. and Goldberg, N.H. (1993). A comparison of obsidian and surgical steel scalpel wound-healing in rats. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 92 884-887. 

Have a prepared sampling kit - solvent cleaned glass vials, tweezers, spatulas, scalpels, nitrile gloves, aluminium foil, sticky labels, and pens. Once cleaned, wrap the vials, etc., in a strip of the foil, both to keep them clean and to identify them as such. 

Use solvent cleaned spatula, scalpel, or tweezers to put the residue in a glass vial. Work over a fresh sheet of aluminium foil to catch any escapee sample. Solvent clean the spatula between samples to avoid cross contamination. 

In addition to being harmful to the individual, many chemicals are hazardous to the environment, so waste chemicals must not be put down the sink or into the rubbish bins unless this is stated to be safe. Waste solvent and reagents must be put into appropriate waste bottles. Chlorinated and nonchlorinated solvents are usually kept separately and then sent for disposal by external contractors. Broken glass or needles and scalpels are to be disposed of in sharps containers. 

NaCl (0.27 g) was dissolved in 30 mL of distilled water and cooled in an ice-water bath. Horse liver (30 g) was cut into small pieces using a scalpel, mixed with the ice-cold NaCl solution and homogenized in the Potter-S tissue homogenizer under cooling in ice-water. 

Nevertheless, our first operation together went smoothly enough. The second, a more ambitious and delicate maneuver, required Karl to reach the optic nerve, deep within the center of the brain. As I held the clamps that exposed the desired site, Karl, although blessed with tiny hands, made a false move with his scalpel and nicked the nerve. I thought it was because I had not held the retractor steady, but I checked with him recently and he actually remembered the incident... 

---