Home Made Soft Tissue Retractor During Covid 19 Supply Chain Disruption
Rami S. Alghamdi, Elnazeer O. Ahmed.
King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
BACKGROUND: Soft tissue retractor is used in minimally invasive cardiac surgery to facilitate visualization of intrathoracic structures and provide entry for the instruments into the thoracic cavity during specific cardiac surgical procedures.During COVID-19 period our institute have shortages in some supplies including soft tissue retractor.
METHODS: Home made soft tissue retractor was designed from supplements can be found in the Cardiac operating room. By using Adhesive tapes, fabric plastic that cover guide wire and ruler contributed to create the retractor.
RESULTS: The designed retractor aids the exposure of surgical field during valve procedure by minimally invasive approach.
CONCLUSIONS: Disruption of soft tissue retractor supplies was not impediment to continue performing minimally invasive valve surgery by designed retractor during covid 19 period.
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