Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Chemical Family
- Product Type
- Technologies
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- Indications
To hold closed clean surgical incisions and cleansed trauma induced lacerations.
Composition: n-butyl 2 - cyanoacrylate with Plasticizers
Features & Benefits
- Ready-to-Use Product Features
- Product Attributes
- Histoacryl Flexible has been designed to combine flexibility, strength, and fast polymerization times, to close lacerations and surgical incisions.
- Tensile strength is significantly higher for Histoacryl Flexible, than the leading competitor.
- Close up to 25 linear centimeters with one ampoule of adhesive.
- Only one, thin layer of adhesive is needed for full strength closure.
- Flexibility of polymerized adhesive is critical to good cosmetic results.
- Beveled applicator tip provides enhanced control and improved application, for longer, wider incisions.
- Flexibility of an Octyl, tensile strength of a Butyl
- Histoacryl® One Historacryl Flexible vile, closes 25 linear centimeters
- Histoacryl Flexible provides a microbial barrier for 7 days, with intact adhesive film
- Precision applicator with optional beveled tip, for longer, wider applications
Applications & Uses
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- Application Area
- Cure Method
- Application
Open: Open the package and take out the Histoacryl Tip.
Prepare applicator tip**: Open the ampoule by twisting off the ribbed tip. Attach the Histoacryl Tip to opened ampoule
Apply: Apply the glue in a thin layer to the approximated wound edges and hold in position for 60 seconds.
Properties
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- Physical Form
Regulatory & Compliance
- Certifications & Compliance
Technical Details & Test Data
- Microbial Barrier
In vitro studies have shown that Histoacryl Flexible acts as a barrier to microbial penetration as long as the adhesive film remains intact.*
* Histoacryl Flexible inhibits the growth of Staphyloccus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterococcus faecium, Brevundimonas dimuta and Candida albicans for up to 7 days on inoculated agar plates.
Packaging & Availability
- Packaging Type
- Regional Availability
- Packaging Information
Part # Description UOM #/UOM 1051260-P Histoacryl® Flexible
10 / 0.5 mL ampoule I 10 Applicator TipsBox 10
Storage & Handling
- Shelf Life
- 24 months (at 25°C)