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Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures
- 1st Edition - September 29, 2022
- Editors: Sabu Thomas, Phil Coates, Ben Whiteside, Blessy Joseph, Karthik Nair
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 7 5 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 3 4 9 - 1
Polymeric materials offer a high level of versatility due to the range of applications possible within the biomedical and clinical fields – including wound closure - particularly… Read more
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Request a sales quotePolymeric materials offer a high level of versatility due to the range of applications possible within the biomedical and clinical fields – including wound closure - particularly in comparison to metals or ceramics. These specialised materials also allow for a diverse array of therapeutic effects. Although there have been advances in improving polymeric materials for surgical sutures, there is little information available regarding improving the therapeutic value of sutures, and advanced technologies used to implement this improvement. Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures provides thorough coverage on suture materials with improved mechanical and therapeutic properties that can improve quality of life; chapter topics include drug-releasing kinetics of sutures, shape memory polymer sutures and future trends.
This book is a useful resource for academics and researchers in the materials science and biomedical engineering fields, as well as professionals in biomaterials and biotextiles development and clinicians looking to learn more about suture material properties and suture/body interactions.
This book is a useful resource for academics and researchers in the materials science and biomedical engineering fields, as well as professionals in biomaterials and biotextiles development and clinicians looking to learn more about suture material properties and suture/body interactions.
- Depicts recent advances in both the therapeutic effects of polymer-based sutures, as well as the various manufacturing techniques employed in the production of sutures
- Offers an interdisciplinary approach, covering material properties and engineering technologies, as well as an understanding of the biological properties of sutures, such as suture/body interactions
- Comprehensive coverage allows both experienced researchers in the area and new entrants (such as clinicians) to learn more about this important topic
Materials scientists and biomedical engineers in academia and R&D groups developing medical devices and biotextiles
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. Advances in biopolymer based surgical sutures
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Polymers as suture materials
- 1.3. Biopolymers
- 1.4. Biopolymers for sutures
- 1.5. Sterilization of sutures
- 1.6. Conclusion and future perspectives
- Chapter 2. Functionalization of sutures
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Suture materials: from hairs to antibacterial biopolymers
- 2.3. Suture types
- 2.4. Biocompatibility studies for functionalized sutures
- 2.5. Functionalization
- 2.6. Functionalization of nonabsorbable sutures
- 2.7. Functionalization of absorbable sutures
- 2.8. Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Improving the therapeutic value of sutures
- 3.1. Content
- 3.2. General concepts
- 3.3. Suture modification: bioactive devices as the future of the suture technology
- 3.4. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Evaluating the mechanical properties of sutures
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Mechanical properties
- 4.3. Characterization techniques
- 4.4. Effect of antibacterial coating on mechanical properties
- 4.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Polymers for surgical sutures
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Types of polymeric surgical sutures and their applications
- 5.3. Tissue adhesive polymers as suture candidate
- 5.4. Challenges with current technologies
- 5.5. Future perspective and remarks
- 5.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Smart sutures
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Base material of smart suture
- 6.3. Temperature sensors for smart sutures
- 6.4. pH sensor smart sutures
- 6.5. Strain smart sutures
- 6.6. Glucose smart sutures
- 6.7. Microfluidic analysis smart sutures
- 6.8. Resorbable smart sutures
- 6.9. Future smart sutures
- 6.10. Conclusions
- Chapter 7. Bioactive sutures: advances in surgical suture functionalization
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Suture structure
- 7.3. Fabricating bioactive suture methods
- 7.4. Cell based bioactive sutures
- 7.5. Incorporated bioactive material
- 7.6. Future developments of bioactive sutures
- 7.7. Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Engineering aspects of suture fabrication
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Why is the engineering of suture fabrication important?
- 8.3. Broadening the functionality of sutures
- 8.4. Conclusions
- Chapter 9. Revisiting the properties of suture materials: an overview
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Types of suture materials and examples
- 9.3. Suture materials and their properties: recent advances
- 9.4. Properties of suture materials: comparative analysis
- 9.5. Micro and nanotechnology-enabled suture materials
- 9.6. Conclusions and future outlook
- Chapter 10. Suture materials, emerging trends
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Taxonomy of sutures
- 10.3. Absorbable and nonabsorbable suture materials
- 10.4. Monofilament, multifilament sutures and barbed sutures brands
- 10.5. Categories of absorbable sutures
- 10.6. Slowly absorbable sutures
- 10.7. New trends in sutures
- 10.8. Conclusion
- Chapter 11. Biocompatibility and cytotoxicity of polymer sutures
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Classification of sutures
- 11.3. Necessary characteristics of suture materials
- 11.4. Biocompatibility of sutures
- 11.5. Cytotoxicity of sutures
- 11.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 12. Shape memory polymers as sutures
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Sutures
- 12.3. Conclusion
- Chapter 13. Drug release kinetics of sutures
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Surgical sutures
- 13.3. Drug release from antiinflammatory sutures
- 13.4. Drug release from growth factor embedded sutures
- 13.5. Drug release from antithrombotic sutures
- 13.6. Drug release kinetics of antibacterial sutures
- 13.7. Oxygen release from sutures
- 13.8. Conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 326
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 29, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128197509
- eBook ISBN: 9780323853491
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Sabu Thomas
Prof. Sabu Thomas is a Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering and the Director of the School of Energy Materials at Mahatma Gandhi University, India. Additionally, he is the Chairman of the Trivandrum Engineering Science & Technology Research Park (TrEST Research Park) in Thiruvananthapuram, India. He is the founder director of the International and Inter-university Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Mahatma Gandhi University and the former Vice-Chancellor of the same institution.
Prof. Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields. Dr. Thomas has been conferred with Honoris Causa (DSc) by the University of South Brittany, France.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Director, International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, IndiaPC
Phil Coates
Professor of Polymer Engineering, Director, Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Polymer Science and Technology, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Polymer Engineering, Director, Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Polymer Science and Technology, University of Bradford, Bradford, UKBW
Ben Whiteside
Ben currently leads the RKT Centre for Polymer Micro and Nano Technology based at the University of Bradford which provides a key resource for industry working to bring micro and nano scale components to market, alongside internationally recognised pioneering academic research in the field.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Bradford, UKBJ
Blessy Joseph
Blessy Joseph is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. She earned degrees in Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Kerala, India, including a master’s focused on Molecular Medicine. She later pursued her PhD
in the same field at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Her research focuses on nanotechnology, drug delivery systems, biomaterials, and polymer nanocomposites for tissue engineering.
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral scholar, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USAKN
Karthik Nair
Dr Nair graduated from Bharathi Vidyapeeth College of Pharmacy (India) with a Bachelor Degree in Pharmacy and he gained a PGDip in pharmacology from Nottingham Trent University. He also has an MSc in drug delivery from Aston University, Birmingham. In 2014 he completed his PhD in Pharmaceutical Engineering from Polymer IRC, University of Bradford and since then he is working as a Post-Doctoral Researcher on Healthcare Impact Partnership project on Smart Manufacturing of Medical Devices for soft tissue fixation (e.g. rotator cuff and anterior cruciate ligament repairs; fixations for fracture (including intramedullary nails) and knee joint replacements). The aim of this collaborative project is to exploit unique capabilities in shape memory polymers and biomaterials for enhanced biomedical cementless fixations using controlled shape reversion, in clinically relevant timescales, and open up opportunities for new solutions in orthopaedic repairs, which will have a defined route to regulatory certification and a clear patent pathway.
Affiliations and expertise
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical and Energy Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UKRead Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures on ScienceDirect