Vessel Loops

Vessel loops are used to control, retract and occlude blood vessels and can come in different colours to help identify a certain vessel (Moutrey, 2015)   

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Shods 

Shods provide extra protection when handling vessels and can be applied as suture holds (Moutrey, 2015)

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Liger Clips

Liger clips or LIgating clips are used to permanently ligate blood vessels Boer Medicals. (2024), they come in disposable applicators or reusable one on the tray  

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Intraoperative Dopler

Intraoperative dopplers allow the surgeon to assess the blood flow in the patients vessels after implantation of the graft and provides real time information to the surgeon potentially decreasing poor outcomes for patients (lubner et al. 2021)  

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Sutures

Prolene sutures are used to suture the blood vessels from 5-0 to 7-0 (Darling and Ozaki, 2015)

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Heparinised saline 

Heparinised saline is used to prevent blood clots from forming in the graft as well as lubrication to allow the surgeons to effectively tie knots in the thin sutures of the 5-0 -7-0 prolene.  

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