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stockinet
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stockinet
closely woven cotton material used extensively by surgeons mostly in the form of cylinders (e.g. Tubegauze) as a draping technique for surgery, as an undercoat for a plaster cast and as a means of keeping dressings in place on a limb.
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FDA stated that it was aware the manufacturer had already initiated a voluntary recall of the sterile stockinettes, which were not gamma irradiated to reduce the bioburden prior to packaging and sterilization, but that the firm also "must promptly initiate permanent corrective and preventative action" on their quality system.
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