- Title: THAILAND: ISRAELI MEDICAL TEAM PERFORMS OPERATION USING SURGICAL GLUE
- Date: 5th February 1998
- Summary: BANGKOK, THAILAND (FEBRUARY 4, 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV EXTERIOR "RAMATHIBODI" HOSPITAL IN BANGKOK 0.05 2. TV SURGERY ROOM 0.09 3. CU PATIENT WHO WILL BE OPERATED ON 0.14 4. SV X-RAY ROOM 0.18 5. SV PATIENT BEING ANAETHETISED 0.23 6. CU PEOPLE OBSERVING PROCEDURE 0.27 7. TV/CU MEDICAL TEAM BEGIN OPERATION 92 SHOT
- Embargoed: 20th February 1998 12:00
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- Location: BANGKOK, THAILAND
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- Country: Thailand
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- Story Text: An Israeli medical team working in Thailand has performed a world first by using a newly developed surgical glue in a complex operation to repair six joints in a single operation.
The Israeli medical team performed the operation on Wednesday (February 4) at Bangkok's Ramathibodi Mahidol University hospital.
Watched by medical students, university and government officials, the team, led by Professor Uri Martinowitz, performed the operation on a Thai haemophiliac.
The colourless glue is sprayed directly onto bleeding areas.It can also be used in dental work, for skin grafts, treating injuries and as a vehicle for slow release of antiobiotiocs, its developers said.
Wednesday's operation was the first time the glue had been used successfully in so complex an operation.
Professor Martinowitz said after the operation the patient would almost certainly have died without the use of the glue.
Martinowitz who developed the glue is having it manufactured by an Israeli-Belgian company called Omrix.
The glue was first used in Thailand in 1997 and has since been used in 145 operations, including open heart surgery.
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