Cast cutting wire and guides
Mok, Catherine
Description
Collection
Title:
Cast cutting wire and guides
Creator:
Mok, Catherine
Date:
6/12/2018
Text:
Hello list,
I am trying to source a cutting system we have had in the past. We use it for cutting off bulbous casts with minimal deformation. Essentially, it consists of a self-adhesive plastic or nylon guide channel (which can be stuck on to the residuum or limb prior to casting). Once the cast has been taken, the clinician feeds a rough cutting wire through the channel, affixes a handle to each end, and then proceeds to use a sawing motion which cuts through the channel and the cast without the need to use a blade, and without deforming it at all.
From memory, we last purchased it from a surgical product company. I think it can be bought as a set of wires and adhesive guide channels. We already have handles.
Thanks in advance,
Cath Mok
Catherine Mok
Prosthetist/Orthotist | Department of Prosthetics & Orthotics
+61 3 9076 6261 | <Email Address Redacted> <mailto:<Email Address Redacted>>
Caulfield Hospital | 260 Kooyong Road| Caulfield VIC 3162 | Australia
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I am trying to source a cutting system we have had in the past. We use it for cutting off bulbous casts with minimal deformation. Essentially, it consists of a self-adhesive plastic or nylon guide channel (which can be stuck on to the residuum or limb prior to casting). Once the cast has been taken, the clinician feeds a rough cutting wire through the channel, affixes a handle to each end, and then proceeds to use a sawing motion which cuts through the channel and the cast without the need to use a blade, and without deforming it at all.
From memory, we last purchased it from a surgical product company. I think it can be bought as a set of wires and adhesive guide channels. We already have handles.
Thanks in advance,
Cath Mok
Catherine Mok
Prosthetist/Orthotist | Department of Prosthetics & Orthotics
+61 3 9076 6261 | <Email Address Redacted> <mailto:<Email Address Redacted>>
Caulfield Hospital | 260 Kooyong Road| Caulfield VIC 3162 | Australia
[caulfield logo orange]
[cid: <Email Address Redacted> ]
Citation
Mok, Catherine, “Cast cutting wire and guides,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 6, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/208959.
