Surgical suture | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Medical device used to hold body tissues together

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. Surgeons, physicians, dentists, podiatrists, eye doctors, registered nurses and other trained nursing personnel, medics, clinical pharmacists and veterinarians typically engage in suturing. Surgical knots are used to secure the sutures.

Historically, surgeons used reusable needles with holes (called "eyes"), which are supplied separate from their suture thread. Such suture must be threaded on site, as is done in embroidery sewing. The advantage of this is that any thread and needle combination is possible to suit the job at hand. Swag...