Dr. Juan Agustin Coruña IV [via Philstar]
A resident doctor at a Department of Health regional hospital in Central Philippines has invented a surgical technique to fix bone fractures with the use of nylon cable ties.
The nylon cable ties, commercially available as nylon ties used to organize and keep computer cables from tangling, are meant to replace the more expensive stainless steel wires used to strengthen fracture fixation in broken bones with the same healing effect to the bone. The use of nylon cable ties is expected to reduce orthopaedic surgery costs.
Dr. Juan Agustin Coruña IV, a doctor in the Orthopaedics and Traumatology Department of the government-run Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental has been presenting the new orthopaedic cabling system in medical conventions around the world.
Dr. Coruña, a University of the East Ramon Magsaysay College of Medicine graduate and Ateneo de Manila University BS Psychology alumnus
started developing the new cerclage system in 2012.
Together with CLMMRH colleagues Dr. Jose Maria R. Coruña, Orthopaedics and Traumatology department chairman, with Dr. Hans Francis D. Ferraris, Laboratory department and Research Committee chairman, and Dr. Dove A. Demandante, resident of Laboratory department, Dr. Coruña developed the study for presentation to clinicians, academicians and researchers.
Dr. Coruña is expected to perform strength testing on the nylon cable ties before applying the new surgical technique to humans.
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