If a patient has an area with poor circulation (like after a reattachement of a severed body part) a leech will first draw blood through that part, and then the anticoagulants in the leech's saliva will help keep the blood flow up even afte...
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When we transplant tissue in reconstructive surgery or re-attach body parts, such as fingers, it is sometimes difficult to reconnect veins, says Roy Ng, consultant plastic surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital, one of several London hospitals that use leeches.
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Order medicinal Leeches ... Maintenance of the medicinal leeches in hospitals ... leeches for medicinal use...
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A recent cost analysis shows that, for a unit to use leeches, the hospital pharmacy must buy a storage tank and medium in addition to the leeches. ...
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Vedder and other surgeons who use leeches always prescribe antibiotics for patients, too, because even leeches bred specifically for medical use can't be sterile. ... Harborview sometimes ships "emergency" leeches to other local hospitals, said Drew Edwards, Harborview's director of pharmacy operations.
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You may be surprised to learn that these critters are still in use today -- not only in so-called natural medicine circles, but also in some very cutting-edge and contemporary ... There is some evidence that the medicinal use of leeches -- the type of worms that feed on blood -- dates as far back as ancient Egypt.
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www.bottomlinesecrets.com/article.html?article_id=49262
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Biopharm Leeches - the biting edge of science. Based in Hendy, South Wales (UK), Biopharm supplies leeches worldwide to hospitals and research laboratories. Thousands of patients owe the successful reattachment of body parts to miraculous technological advances in plastic and reconstructive surgery;
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Indeed the use of leeches to draw blood goes back thousands of years. They were widely used as an alternative treatment to bloodletting and amputation for several thousand years. Leeches reached their height of medicinal use in the mid-1800s. ... Leeches are already widely used in American hospitals, and companies that...
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Blood letting and the therapeutic use of Hirudo medicinalis date back to ancient Egypt and the beginning of civilisation. Their popularity has varied over ... 35 (1995) 300]. The first medicinal leech farm, Biopharm, was set up in Swansea in 1981 by Dr Roy Sawyer, and now supplies leeches to hospitals all over the world.
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