Medical-Surgical Nursing (Grade A+)

Summary:

Surgical sutures, also known as stitches, are used to hold tissues together after an injury or surgery. They are made up of a needle and thread. The purpose of suturing is to facilitate wound healing, prevent infection, and achieve a pleasing scar appearance. Suture materials should have certain specifications, such as being sterile, uniform in strength, hypoallergenic, safe for different tissues, and capable of maintaining tissue closure until healing is complete. Suture materials can be absorbable or nonabsorbable, with absorbable materials being digested by the body and nonabsorbable materials remaining in the body until removed. They can also be of natural or synthetic origin. Suture materials can have different structures, including monofilament (single strand) or multifilament (multiple strands twisted or braided together). Each type of suture material has its own characteristics and uses.

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Medical-Surgical Nursing

ASSIGNMENT ON SUTURE AND ITS TYPES, SUTURING MATERIAL, AND TECHNIQUES SUBJECT: MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING

Introduction:
A surgical suture (commonly called stitches) is a medical device that holds body tissues together after an injury or surgery. The application generally involves using a needle with an attached length of thread. Several different shapes, sizes, and thread materials have been developed over the millennia. Surgeons, physicians, dentists, eye doctors, registered nurses, other trained nursing personnel, medics, and clinical pharmacists typically use suturing.

DEFINITION:
Suturing is joining tissues with a needle and “thread,” so the tissues bind together and heal. The “thread” is actually specialized suture material.
1. A stitch or row of stitches holding together the edges of a wound or surgical incision.
2. The sewing involves joining two surfaces or edges together along a line.
3. The fine thread or other material used surgically to close a wound or join tissues.

PURPOSE OF SUTURING:
 To hold a wound together in good apposition until such time as the natural healing process is sufficiently well established to make the support from the suture material unnecessary and redundant.
 Aid in wound healing
 Avoid wound infection
 Produce aesthetically pleasing scars by approximating skin edges.
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