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Jain's hand retractor system and stand: an innovative device for hand surgery

  • Jain, Aakansh (Department of Plastic Surgery, King George's Medical University)
  • Received : 2021.03.08
  • Accepted : 2021.05.27
  • Published : 2021.07.15
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Abstract

Solo hand surgery is becoming increasingly common, mostly due to a lack of assistants and dedicated operating theatres. The solo hand surgeon faces challenges of proper hand positioning, elevation, and skin flap/tissue retraction. Most commercially available hand retractors or stands do not address all the relevant problems and are not economically feasible for trainee surgeons. The Jain's hand retractor system and stand, described herein, provides solutions to all these problems, and its simple design helps surgeons to reproduce it easily.

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