Doctor uses glue to aid open-heart recovery.

TORONTO (Reuters) - A new surgical technique using glue to repair
breastbones intentionally broken during open-heart surgery speeds up
recovery time and is "substantially less painful" for patients, a
University of Calgary scientist said on Thursday.


The standard practice in operating rooms is to sew the breastbone
back together with wire after open-heart surgery. That procedure takes
weeks to heal and often requires strong pain medication to withstand,
said Dr. Paul Fedak, a cardiac surgeon at Foothills Medical Center in
Calgary, Alberta, and a scientist at the university's faculty of
medicine.


"We can now heal the breastbone in hours instead of weeks after
open-heart surgery," Fedak, who pioneered the new procedure, said in a
statement.


The procedure uses a special adhesive called "Kryptonite," made by Doctors Research Group Inc of Connecticut.


A study involving over 20 patients in Calgary found that people
whose chests were glued back together were able to get back to full
physical activity within days instead of the months it normally takes
with the wire stitches.

grumpy old man wrote:They've been using glue medically for a very long time now.