Suture materials

Re: Suture materials

Nicole Pechin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:45:12 GMT

Im actually not a student but I work at an emergency clinic that requires knowledge of suture material and ties and knots and such. I havent obviously learned to much so far but every bit helps! I may take some of those excerpts from the package material too, it sounds like a good idea!

Re: Suture materials

Gillian Mostyn — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:22:22 GMT

[quote user="Charlotte says smile"]cant remember the name of the company that makes vicryl etc[/quote]

Ethicon - see link above

Re: Suture materials

Charlotte says smile — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:21 GMT

cant remember the name of the company that makes vicryl etc. but if you phone them they had a really good booklet that had the name of each of the suture materials, like vicryl = polyglactin910 then quite alot of info about them how long took to disolve where to use it where not to use it, it also had all the trade names from other companies in it too. it was really useful! I got this a year or so ago so they should still have some.

Re: Suture materials

bongo — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:44:32 GMT

r u a student? if so I am too and another nurse at my practice said when she was learning she just cut out the english from all the instructions on different suture materials and photocopied them onto one peice of paper, thats what I intend to do!

Re: Suture materials

Gillian Mostyn — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:57:15 GMT

http://ecatalog.ethicon.com/sutures