Process for the treatment of a surgical suturing thread and surgical suturing thread

US5104398A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Institute fuer Textil- und Faserforschung Stuttgart Stiftung des oeffentlichen Rechts · DE

Inventors

• Heinrich Planck · Ratingen, DE
• Erhard Mueller · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 30, 1991
• Grant date: Apr 14, 1992
• Expiry date: Jan 30, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61L17/145
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A surgical suturing thread is coated with a fatty acid metal salt. For this purpose it is dissolved in an organic solvent and the suturing thread is coated with the hot solution, whose temperature is so high that the fatty acid metal salt remains in the dissolved state. The solvent is then evaporated from the thus applied coating at elevated temperature.