Simulated use of the "grasping tie" as for colo-rectostomy after low rectal resection
Picardi, N.
Annali Italiani di Chirurgia 74(1): 109-114
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-469X PMID: 12870290 Document Number: 563024
Simulated test of effectiveness of the original tool grasping tie, technically already illustrated in two previous papers listed in bibliography, for fixing a spongy rubber tube, simulating a rectal stump on the anvil's axle of a circular stapler, by tightening over it a nylon ribbon slip-knot (the tie). After connecting the anvil to the stapler head through an other spongy rubber tube simulating a colonic loop, and the firing of the stapler, it is demonstrated the correct circular anastomosis achievable.