Patent ID: 8758738

Claim:
A method for sealing a wound, comprising applying a radiation-sterilized cyanoacrylate adhesive composition over a wound and allowing the composition to cure over the wound, thereby sealing the wound, wherein the radiation-sterilized cyanoacrylate adhesive composition comprises a cyanoacrylate monomer stabilized with about 2000 to about 15,000 parts per million of the cyanoacrylate monomer of butylated hydroxyl anisole and about 10 to about 200 parts per million of the cyanoacrylate monomer of sulfur dioxide, homogenously mixed together with about 0.04% to about 0.5% by weight of the composition of a poloxamer, and wherein the radiation-sterilized cyanoacrylate adhesive composition has a viscosity between about 20 centipoise to about 2000 centipoise.