What are these called?

meybe it was different, they were under the skin , meybe it was part of the j p drain, but they were red and snaked through these open areas

When I worked NICU we had an infant whose mother had an amniotic fluid embolus and coded. They stat C-sectioned the baby but he was profoundly, profoundly damaged. He couldn't close his eyes and consequently got corneal ulcers at about 6 months. The docs finally sewed his eyes shut and had to use bumpers. To this day the mere thought of it makes me gag a little.

I'm wondering if there are 2 different things ???

Retention sutures are for an incision that has a higher likelihood of popping staples/sutures; the bumpers sound like they're supposed to protect the area, regardless of easy approximation of what was brought together????

live and learn

"Bolsters" are wider flat types of things that sutures are threaded through at 4 points. Vessel loops are not hollow and cannot hold sutures in place like a "Bumper." I guess I can see where they would be useful to slide underneath skin sutures to prevent them from cutting into edematous tissue. Hmmmm.....