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Electrospun Medical Sutures for Wound Healing: A Review

open access: yesPolymers, 2022
With the increasing demand for wound healing around the world, the level of medical equipment is also increasing, but sutures are still the preferred medical equipment for medical personnel to solve wound closures.
Wenhui Zhou, Deng-Guang Yu
exaly   +2 more sources

To Suture or not to Suture

British Journal of Midwifery, 1998
Mary Steen (Br J Midwifery 6(9): 572-9) has suggested that research is required urgently into the merits of perineal suturing following normal births. We are pleased to report that such a study has just commenced in central Scotland. The two year study, funded by the Chief Scientist Office, The Scottish Office, is a randomized controlled trial of ...
Valerie Fleming, Susan Hagen
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A Review of Sutures and Suturing Techniques

The Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology, 1992
The ideal suture is strong, handles easily, and forms secure knots. It causes minimal tissue inflammation and does not promote infection. It stretches and accommodates wound edema. Although no single suture possesses all of these features, proper selection of sutures helps achieve better results in skin surgery.
R L, Moy, B, Waldman, D W, Hein
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Sutures: The Suspension Suture

The Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology, 1987
Abstract. The suspension suture is a tension‐reducing stitch that anchors the undersurface of a flap or elliptical wound edge to the underlying periosteum. The technique of placing the stitch is described and the indications for and the benefits derived from its use are discussed.
COL STUART J. SALASCHE   +4 more
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Suturing

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1977
Plastic surgeons use sutures for other purposes than the approximation of tissue. They are used to tie over a bolus to close a dead space or maintain a tissue graft in a desired place until it becomes adherent. A bolus of Vaseline gauze over a cotton dental roll is useful (Fig. 7). Sutures may be used to maintain certain tissue relationships until firm
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Suturing

Emergency Nurse, 1997
This article describes the nursing interventions involved in wound cleaning before the application of sutures, as well as the necessary wound assessment skills, and preparatory techniques in suturing simple lacerations of the skin.
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Sutures and suture anchors: update 2003

Arthroscopy, 2003
Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate recently introduced sutures and suture anchors for single‐pull load‐to‐failure strength and failure mode. Type of Study: Experimental laboratory ...
F Alan, Barber   +2 more
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Surgical instruments, sutures and suturing techniques

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2007
Anthropological studies suggest that prehistoric man used various techniques to close skin wounds (Ellis, 2001). The jaws of termites or beetles were used to bite across wounds and hold skin edges together in India and South America, and in East Africa acacia thorns were stuck along the two wound edges and then plaited together (Ellis, 2001).
Bush, Jim, Bayat, Ardeshir
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Sutures and Suture Anchors—Update 2006

Arthroscopy, 2006
Purpose To evaluate recently introduced sutures and suture anchors for single pull load to failure strength and failure mode. Methods Suture anchors were tested in fresh porcine metaphyseal cortex and cancellous troughs with the use of
F Alan, Barber   +3 more
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“The Suturer”: A New Suturing Instrument

Journal of Urology, 1985
A new suturing instrument that allows easy placement of sutures in deep inaccessible sites is described. The instrument has been used successfully for pelvic and perineal procedures, and is an invaluable asset to the urologist for urethrovesical anastomoses in radical prostatectomies.
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