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Byline: Sue Vorenberg svorenberg@abqtrib.com / 823-3678
BRIGHT IDEA
For doctors, using a normal syringe in some surgical procedures can be an exercise in finger contortion.
Pushing liquids into the body is not the problem it's using the syringe to withdraw a sample that causes nightmares, said Wilmer Sibbitt, a University of New Mexico Hospital doctor of internal medicine.
In procedures such as biopsies and spinal taps, where a doctor uses one hand to feel the body or adjust instruments, he must use his other hand alone to pull the syringe's plunger out typically by pushing against suction of the patient's body with just his thumb.