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A Low-cost, Sterile System for Fat Collection Using a Syringe Tube as a Reservoir

Fat grafting is a widely performed procedure in the field of plastic surgery. It involves fat extraction, processing, and injection into a recipient site. It is imperative that the fat is collected and processed in a sterile system. A wide variety of equipment is required to perform the procedure (e...

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Autores principales: Alshawaf, Solaiman M., Burhamah, Waleed, AlYouha, Sarah, Alwazzan, Sabika, Gerges, Yousef
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Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9225492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765676
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000004264
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author Alshawaf, Solaiman M.
Burhamah, Waleed
AlYouha, Sarah
Alwazzan, Sabika
Gerges, Yousef
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Burhamah, Waleed
AlYouha, Sarah
Alwazzan, Sabika
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description Fat grafting is a widely performed procedure in the field of plastic surgery. It involves fat extraction, processing, and injection into a recipient site. It is imperative that the fat is collected and processed in a sterile system. A wide variety of equipment is required to perform the procedure (eg, a liposuction device, a vacuum pump, and syringes). Limitations often arise in the operating room, especially in low-resource areas, where task-specific equipment might be unavailable. This can present an opportunity for the surgeon to improvise and create a temporary solution. In this report, we describe our solution in dealing with the unavailability of a sterile vacuum pump canister during a large volume fat grafting procedure. We constructed a sterile reservoir using two syringes, through which negative pressure was delivered without breaking sterility. The items used were a 60-cm(3) syringe barrel, a 10-cm(3) syringe barrel, a 60-cm(3) syringe plunger seal, a tube connected to the nonsterile vacuum pump, and the liposuction cannula. This technique allowed us to extract the fat in a sterile environment under the assistance of a suction device. Our novel technique was used for harvesting fat in a sterile reservoir, while still utilizing the assisted suction from the nonsterile vacuum pump, without breaking sterility.
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spelling pubmed-92254922022-06-27 A Low-cost, Sterile System for Fat Collection Using a Syringe Tube as a Reservoir Alshawaf, Solaiman M. Burhamah, Waleed AlYouha, Sarah Alwazzan, Sabika Gerges, Yousef Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open Cosmetic Fat grafting is a widely performed procedure in the field of plastic surgery. It involves fat extraction, processing, and injection into a recipient site. It is imperative that the fat is collected and processed in a sterile system. A wide variety of equipment is required to perform the procedure (eg, a liposuction device, a vacuum pump, and syringes). Limitations often arise in the operating room, especially in low-resource areas, where task-specific equipment might be unavailable. This can present an opportunity for the surgeon to improvise and create a temporary solution. In this report, we describe our solution in dealing with the unavailability of a sterile vacuum pump canister during a large volume fat grafting procedure. We constructed a sterile reservoir using two syringes, through which negative pressure was delivered without breaking sterility. The items used were a 60-cm(3) syringe barrel, a 10-cm(3) syringe barrel, a 60-cm(3) syringe plunger seal, a tube connected to the nonsterile vacuum pump, and the liposuction cannula. This technique allowed us to extract the fat in a sterile environment under the assistance of a suction device. Our novel technique was used for harvesting fat in a sterile reservoir, while still utilizing the assisted suction from the nonsterile vacuum pump, without breaking sterility. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9225492/ /pubmed/35765676 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000004264 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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Alshawaf, Solaiman M.
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AlYouha, Sarah
Alwazzan, Sabika
Gerges, Yousef
A Low-cost, Sterile System for Fat Collection Using a Syringe Tube as a Reservoir
title A Low-cost, Sterile System for Fat Collection Using a Syringe Tube as a Reservoir
title_full A Low-cost, Sterile System for Fat Collection Using a Syringe Tube as a Reservoir
title_fullStr A Low-cost, Sterile System for Fat Collection Using a Syringe Tube as a Reservoir
title_full_unstemmed A Low-cost, Sterile System for Fat Collection Using a Syringe Tube as a Reservoir
title_short A Low-cost, Sterile System for Fat Collection Using a Syringe Tube as a Reservoir
title_sort low-cost, sterile system for fat collection using a syringe tube as a reservoir
topic Cosmetic
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9225492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765676
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000004264
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