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Re: One layer uterine closure From: Dr Eberhard Lisse (el@lisse.NA) Sat Sep 2 08:02:57 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: One layer uterine closure" Previous message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: OT: Basket is mediterranean nowdays." In reply to: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: One layer uterine closure" Next in thread: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: One layer uterine closure" Reply: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: One layer uterine closure" Bernard, I try to avoid lacerating the aorta or perforating the bowel, so I have not much personal experience here, other than suturing the occasional serosa defect with very thin vicryl. It is my understanding from our surgeons however that one closes bowel in two layers. As one does with the bladder. I don't think one can compare suturing a large muscle, which after all does contract during breastfeeding (but then that's not en vogue much over there :-)-O) with vessels. You are indeed right, the muscles heal nicely if yo split them longitudinally, though, by the way, I *DO* adapt the muscles loosely, since I have seen the odd obstruction from a loop slipping in behind the fascia, but if you were to cut the muscles transversely, you surely would suture them, now wouldn't you? Remember, origin/insertion? I have no answer as to why obstetricians are last, since this only seems to be the case in France :-)-O. el on 9/2/06 11:50 AM Bernard Cristalli said the following: > El > How come obstetricians always are the last ones? > It's been a long time bowel and vascular anasomosis are done with one > layer continuous absorbable sutures and obstetricians still wonder on > interrupted double leyer closure, why not silk afer all? > Do you think gut or arteries are of lesser importance than uterus? Isn't > it more vital to close carefully the colon and/or the aorta than the > uterus? Remember we don't even close the muscles in parietal transversal > incisions and the muscles heal by themselves. > One layer continuous suture./ > BC > > Dr Eberhard Lisse a écrit : >> Bernard, >> >> There is no standard in Europe. >> >> In Europe there are at least 6 schools of thought that I know personally >> of, French, UK, West and East German, Romanian and Russian. And I have >> no clue what happens in Spain, Italy and other places. >> >> The rupture rates have nothing to do with other countries per se, but >> perhaps with other techniques. >> >> I don't think 2 layers is worse than one, takes one minute longer, and >> makes me feel better. I *HAVE* seen onlayer closure com eloose once with >> catastrophic results. >> >> el >> >> on 9/2/06 7:23 AM Bernard Cristalli said the following: >> >>> One layer closure has been the standard of care here (France, and Europe >>> I believe) for the last 40 years. >>> I haven't seen our rupture rates at VBAC are higher than others, and we >>> perform a lot of VBACs. >>> BC >>> >> -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) el@lisse.NA el108-ARIN / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 \ / Please send DNS/NA-NiC related e-mail Bachbrecht, Namibia ;____/ to dns-admin@na-nic.com.na Next message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: One layer uterine closure" Previous message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: OT: Basket is mediterranean nowdays." In reply to: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: One layer uterine closure" Next in thread: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: One layer uterine closure" Reply: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: One layer uterine closure"

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