
Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures
- 1st Edition - September 29, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- 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
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Request a sales quoteThis 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
- 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
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 29, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- No. of pages: 326
- Language: English
- 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.
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