Sutures or staples? This wasn’t really a question until just about fifty years ago. Sutures have been used since the 16th century BCE, while the idea of stapling didn’t come to fruition until early in the 20th century CE. The "father of surgical stapling," Hungarian physician Hümér Hültl, invented the first surgical stapling device in 1908, with a prototype stapler weighing in at eight pounds and requiring two hours to assemble and load. By the 1970s, however, the technology was refined into the more-widely known device we know today.
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Made of stainless steel or titanium (or sometimes nickel, chromium, plastic, or iron), surgical staples are usually used to close deep lacerations which aren’t appropriate for ordinary stitches, or for areas of the body under high tension. Staples are curved, straight, or circular, and unlike “office staples,” which require an anvil that the staples are pressed against to form a hook, surgical staples have bent prongs with no anvil required. Staples may be used on the abdomen, legs, arms, scalp, or back; however, they should not be used on the neck, feet, or face.
While staples can provide a quick and necessary “quick fix” in emergency situations, the limitations of where can be used on the body can greatly affect first responders, especially in mass casualty situations when they need to quickly determine the best method of wound closure to stop the bleeding. Each year, about 60,000 Americans die from blood loss, with as many as 1.5 million of these hemorrhaging deaths being caused by physical trauma. Studies also show that more than 50% of people with traumatic injuries involving hemorrhaging die within minutes of accident or injury, so proper and quick wound closure is crucial.
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