Usage of Coated Vicryl
Sutures and Steri-StripsTM in Wound
Closure
Name: Kevin
Rakszawski
Class: BE 210
Experimental
Objectives:
To
quantify values of stiffness and failure force of Confor™
foam skin surrogates under tensile loading in the Instron
4444.
To
compare values of stiffness and failure force between samples held together by
coated vicryl sutures and Steri-Strips™.
To
examine the fracture and failure tendencies (i.e. type of failure,location of failure) of the surrogates for clinical
relevance.
Primary
Hypothesis
The
values of stiffness and failure force of skin surrogates held together by
coated vicryl sutures will be significantly greater
than the respective values of skin surrogates held together by Steri-Strips™.
Secondary
Hypotheses
The
skin surrogates held together by coated vicryl
sutures will exhibit failure through the sutures punching through the
surrogates
The skin surrogates held together by Steri-Strips™ will exhibit failure through separation of the Steri-Strips™ from the surrogate surface