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PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2015 12:01 pm 
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Super glue should be considered an excellent cheap alternative in securing a IV line or catheter to an animal's coat.



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The results found that neither super glue weakened the catheters, and they were up to 400 per cent stronger than current dressings at preventing IV drips from pulling out.
The super glues were also quick and easy to apply, there was no irritation or skin damage, no visible bacterial growth and the glues can be safely removed with paraffin, causing no tissue damage.





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WHO knew a humble household item could potentially save the health industry millions of dollars?

Dr Simon Bugden and his Intravenous Lines-Glue Or Not Experiment (IVL-GONE) research team from Caboolture Hospital have found instead of using sticky tape to affix IV lines, a simple dab of superglue is safer and more effective.

One-third of IV lines get blocked, are pulled out, or fall out which can cause pain, leakage and infection.

"There's the pain and cost of having them reinserted, - it costs the Australian health system $200 million a year to replace failed IV lines," he said.

Over the last three months, Dr Bugden said they found using medical-grade superglue made IV lines five times harder to pull out.

"Interim results indicate we'll reduce failure rate from 30%, down to about 20%," he said.

Dr Bugden said superglue was also antibacterial.

"It virtually kills bacteria on people's skin," he said.

To remove the IV line, the glue is dissolved using commercial wipes.

Dr Bugden said superglue was first used by Australian soldiers in a medical capacity in the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

"When they started bleeding and couldn't control the bleeding, they'd get out the spray can of superglue," he said.

The glue stopped bleeding and reduced infection rates in wounds. It remained largely unused in the medical arena until about 15 years ago, when it was used to repair skin wounds in emergency departments.

"This is the first study to look at the scientific manner to see whether superglue could improve the patient's experience of having an IV line," Dr Bugden.

The IVL-GONE trial has been carried out thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation.

QEMRF director Stephen Priestley said Queensland public hospital researchers were striving to improve front-line medical treatment to help the one in three Australians admitted to an emergency department each year.

More than 400 patients took part in the trial, including David Christian from Bribie Island, who was in Caboolture Hospital after a suspected heart attack when he was asked to volunteer.

Having had cannulas held in place the traditional way with sticky tape, and now with the superglue, Mr Christian hails Dr Bugden's experiment a success.

"I had no side effects, no problems," he said.

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