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Umbilical Tape

Cotton Umbilical Tape · Umbilical Tapes · Cotton Tape

A flat, woven white cotton tape, sold sterile in pre-cut strands (often two or three strands per pack) like a sutureSOO-cherA stitch, or the thread used to stitch, that holds the edges of a wound or incision together.Full entry packet.

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What it does, the lengths it comes in and what experienced techs know about it.

  • What it’s for

    Looped around a blood vessel to lift and retract it, like a vessel loop. In cardiac surgery a tape is placed around the aorta before cannulation, and with a short piece of tubing it becomes a Rummel tourniquet that snugs a vessel closed for a time. Our setups also list it as a band material for pulmonary arteryPUL-muh-nair-ee AR-ter-eeThe large blood vessel that carries blood low in oxygen from the right side of the heart to the lungs.Full entry banding.

  • Lengths and variants

    Fuller: about 18 inches (45 cm) long and 0.3 or 0.6 cm wide. Packs also come 30 inches (75 cm) long, and radiopaqueray-dee-oh-PAYKBlocking x-rays, so the material shows up white on an x-ray image.radi/o radiation, x-rayopaque not letting throughFull entry versions exist.

  • What experienced techs know

    What techs who reach for it every day know about it.Pro

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  1. Fuller. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 30 (Vascular and Microvascular Surgery), p. 823 and 838
  2. Fuller. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 32 (Cardiac Surgery), p. 932
  3. Fuller. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 33 (Pediatric Surgery), p. 955

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