Humans have used sutures to close wounds — surgical or otherwise — and hold them together as far back as Ancient Egypt. It wasn’t until 1908 that a Hungarian physician named Hümér Hültl attempted to advance wound closure methods by inventing the first surgical stapler.…
Surgical staples are considered in many situations to have more benefits than traditional sutures in large part because they give doctors the ability to move quickly and close skin wounds in difficult-to-reach places more easily. However, using them does come with risks. In a lawsuit…
Surgical staplers can make life easier for both patients and doctors. These days they are often used instead of sutures and relied upon at hospitals for several procedures ranging from simply closing a skin wound to removing a part of an organ like a lung…