Sutures are placed by mounting a needle with attached suture into a needle holder. The needle point is pressed into the flesh, advanced along the trajectory of the needle's curve until it emerges, and pulled through. The trailing thread is then tied into a knot, usually a square knot or surgeon's knot.
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Surgical suture is a medical device used to hold body tissues together after an injury or surgery. Application generally involves using a needle with an attached length of thread. A number of different shapes, sizes, and thread materials have been developed over its millennia of history.
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The suture must be threaded on site, as is done when sewing at home. The advantage of this is that any thread and needle combination is possible to suit the job at hand. Swaged, or atraumatic, needles with sutures comprise a pre-packed eyeless needle attached to a specific length of suture thread.
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Polydioxanone Sutures (PDS)- monofilament suture. Non absorbable sutures are made of materials which are not metabolized by the body, and are used therefore. either on skin wound closure, where the sutures can be removed after a few weeks, or in some inner tissues in. which absorbable sutures are not adequate.
http://www.upstate.edu/surgery/pdf/education/clerkship/suture_types.pdf
For example, a 6-0 suture is more delicate and has less strength than a 4-0 suture. Sutures come as either absorbable or non absorbable: Absorbable sutures are made of materials which are broken down in tissue after a given period of time, which. depending on the material can be from ten days to eight weeks. They are used therefore in many of the internal. tissues of the body.
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Also, the suture end of a swaged needle is narrower than the needle body, eliminating drag from the thread attachment site. In eyed needles, the thread protrudes from the needle body on both sides, and at best causes drag.
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The suture is not. needed any more, and the fact that it disappears is an advantage, as there is no foreign material left inside the. body and no need for the patient to have the sutures removed. Absorbable sutures were originally made of the intestines of sheep, the so called catgut.
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what is suture made of
The suture is made from the intestines of sheep and also called catgut.. Suture is made of the intestines of sheep, the so called catgut.