Bone wax

In bone wax is a medical drug , which is suitable for intraosseous hemostasis is used. It is a sterile mixture of beeswax and Vaseline in a ratio of 2: 1. The bone wax is used intraoperatively. Because it is easy to deform, it can be used to temporarily seal the bleeding at the break edges, for example after a median sternotomy . In addition, the bone wax is also used in neurosurgery , orthopedics and traumatology , thoracic surgery and jaw surgery .

development

The use of a forerunner of bone wax was first documented by Henri Ferdinand Dolbeau , which happened in the course of a neurosurgical intervention in 1842. However gained bone wax as a temporary hemostatic his fame, later than fifty years of this in neurosurgical interventions by Victor Horsley was used.

literature

• Gupta G, Prestigiacomo CJ: Sealing wax to bone wax: predecessors to Horsley's development . In: Neurosurgical Focus , 2007