Needles, Sutures | 合法醫療器材資訊網

2018年12月27日—Longer,straightneedlesoftheKeithtypearesometimesusedmanuallywithoutaneedleholderformattress-typeskinclosures.These,too,are ...

Some form of suture has been used for centuries either to approximate tissue or to ligate vessels. Wound suturing was described as early as 3500 BC in an Egyptian papyrus, and it was used by Galen, physician to the gladiators, to stop their bleeding (Snyder, 1976; Stone, 1988). Joseph Lister (1869), who pioneered the concept of antisepsis, made a major advance in suture material. His chromatization of gut suture in 1876 resulted in significant prolongation of suture tensile strength. In Lister’s day, the violin was often referred to as a “kit.” The most common source of gut material for suture was violin strings fashioned from sheep or ox intestines. Thus the term “kitgut” was introduced, and this later was modified to “catgut” (Stone, 1988).

Table 1-1[1] describes various characteristics of suture material. The ideal suture ...