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Fast Absorbing Braided Coated Polyglycolic Acid Synthetic Absorbable
Visorb Quick is a fast absorbing coated braided polyglycolic acid synthetic absorbable sterile surgical suture composed of a 100% polymer made from polyglycolic acid. When dyded, only FDA-approved color additives such as FD&C Violet No.2 are used. The undyed suture is milk white in color.
Characteristics
Fast absorbing polyglycolic acid is intended to model the performance of collagen (surgical gut) suture.
Indications
Coated Visorb Quick synthetic absorbable suture is indicated only for use in superficial soft tissue approximation of the skin and mucosa, where only short term wound support is required. Coated Visorb Quick suture is not intended for use in ligation, ophthalmic, cardiovascular or neurological procedures.
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Coated Visorb Quick elicits a minimal acute inflammatory reaction in tissue. Progressive loss of tensile strength and eventual absorption of Visorb Quick occurs by means of hydrolysis, where the copolymer degrades to glycolic and lactic acids which are subsequently absorbed and metabolized in the body.
Tensile Strength
Subcutaneous tissue implantation studies of coated Visorb Quick sutures in rats show that 6-9 days post-implantation approximately 50% of the origional tensile strength remains depending on suture size. All of the origional tensile strength is lost by approximately 14 days post-implatation. Intramuscular implantation studies in rats shows that the absorption of these sutures occurs therafter and is essentially complete by 42 days.
Absorption
Absorption begins as a loss of tensile stregth without appreciable loss of mass. Absorption of Visorb Quick sutures is essentially complete in 42 days.
Sterilization
Ethylene oxide
Packaging
Coated Visorb Quick sutures are available sterile, dyed or undyed and attached to stainless steel needles of varying types and sizes in one to three-dozen boxes, or non-needled on ligating reels. Visorb Quick sutures are available in various lengths in sizes: 6/0 to 1 (0.7 to 4.0 metric).