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Biomimicking Antibacterial Opto‐Electro Sensing Sutures Made of Regenerated Silk Proteins

Advances in Materials, 2020
Surgical sutures play an important role across a wide range of medical treatments and a wide variety exist, differing in strength, size, composition, and performance. Recently, increasing interest has been paid to bioactive and electronic sutures made of
Mengwei Liu, Yujia Zhang, Keyin Liu, Gai Zhang, Ying Mao, Liang Chen, Yinbo Peng, T. Tao   +7 more
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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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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.
M J Devine-Rust, R Jarchow, J Adnot, Stuart J. Salasche, B D Feldman   +4 more
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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.
Barry Waldman, Ronald L. Moy, Darryl W. Hein   +2 more
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Electrospun Polymeric Core-sheath Yarns as Drug Eluting Surgical Sutures.

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2016
Drug-coated sutures are widely used as delivery depots for antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs at surgical wound sites. Although drug-laden coating provides good localized drug concentration, variable loading efficiency and release kinetics limits ...
Smrithi Padmakumar, J. Joseph, Madhuri Harsha Neppalli, S. Mathew, S. Nair, Sahadev A Shankarappa, D. Menon   +6 more
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An Alternative to Sutures

Plastic Surgical Nursing, 2001
Cyanoacrylate tissue adhesives are used in numerous settings to close wounds without the use of sutures. The product and its use for closing chest tube wounds is discussed.
Geraldine Vargas, Tammy Beth Reger
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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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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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“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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