Range
Overview of the B. Braun range
B. Braun offers a large variety of different sutures to fulfill practitioners’ need.
Reels
Sutures also come in the form of reels without needles, often used for ligating small blood vessels.
Resorption (absorption)
Once implanted, the suture material may either remain in the body or be broken down.
This difference in behaviour leads to sutures being classed under two categories: non-absorbable sutures and absorbable sutures.
Non-absorbable sutures remain in the body permanently and offer long-term support; in the event of their being used superficially (on the skin), they will have to be removed.
Absorbable sutures disappear in the more or less long term; the degradation profile depends on the chemical composition of the threads.
There are absorbable sutures for short-term (approx. 50 days), medium-term (60 to 90 days), long-term (180 to 210 days) and extra-long-term (390 days) use.
The mechanism of degradation varies according to the origin see Origin >> of the material from which the suture is made. Absorbable synthetic sutures are broken down by hydrolysis see Hydrolysis >>, which guarantees homogeneous, regular, predictable degradation and creates physiological metabolites (products of degradation). B. Braun offers an extensive range of non-absorbable and absorbable sutures.