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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 5 Reported molding techniques outlined in detail

From: Antibiotic cement coating in orthopedic surgery: a systematic review of reported clinical techniques

Application and molding techniques of coating (digital, manual, device assisted)

Refs.

Chest tubes

[10, 11, 13,14,15,16, 18, 21, 23, 24, 29,30,31, 35, 36, 42, 48]

Silicone tubes

[12, 19, 20, 22, 27, 28, 32, 33, 43,44,45]

Manually with digital hand-rolling

[25, 39, 41]

Manual application without mention of hand-rolling

[9, 17, 34, 47]

Manual application using a syringe

[8, 26]

Steel/metal molds

[20, 24, 43]

Food straws, Teflon tubes

[12]

Endotracheal tubes

[40]

Not specified

[37, 38, 46]