What is sutures? Write about them in lecture notes

SURGICAL LIGATURES
AND SUTURES

, CONTENTS
 Introduction
 History
 Definition
 Purpose of suturing
 Suture materials
 Classification
 Selection of suture material
 Absorption of suture material
 Biological response of body to suture.
 Needles, needle holder, scissor
 Principles of suturing
 Suturing Techniques
 Knots Suture Removal
 Other methods of wound closure

, Suture means to „sew‟ or „seam‟. In surgery suture
is the act of sewing or bringing tissue together
and holding them in a position until healing has
taken place.
 A suture is a strand of material used to ligate
blood vessels and to approximate tissues together.

,  History of the Surgical Suture “I dress the wound,
God heals it. “ Ambroise Pare, surgeon 16th century.
 The act of sewing is probably older then Homo
sapiens, because Neanderthal man wore some sort
of clothing.
 Perhaps the world‟s oldest suture was placed by an
embalmer on the body of a twenty first dynasty
mummy about 1100 B.C.
 A south American method of wound closure used
large black ants which bite the wound edges
together and the ants body is then twisted off
leaving the head in place.