Manufactured especially for Ostralos, these exceptional sutures are becoming highly popular, with a number of New Zealand surgeons already using the Dolphin brand.

Petcryl Fast suture is a braided and coated synthetic absorbable surgical suture. It is a co-polymer of 90% glycolide and 10% L-lactice (Polyglactin 910). Petcryl Fast sutures are coated with equal parts of a copolymer of lactide and glactide with calcium stearate. Calcium stearate is a salt of calcium and stearic adic. This mixture forms an absorbable, adherent, non-flaking libricant ideal for suture. All these components are water repelling which slows tissue fluid penetration into the suture.

Polyglactin sutures are found to be non-antigentic and non-pyrogenic, eliciting only mild tissue reactivity during the absorption process.

Distinctive characteristics

• Coated in order to create a smoother synthetic absorbable suture that will pass through tissue readily
• Precise knot placement (as compared with PGA suture)
• Predictable absorption by simple hydrolytic mechanism
• A decreased tendency to irritate tissue
• Good tensile strength

Needle: 3/8 circle, reverse cutting, 19mm

We currently have size 4-0 available. If you would be interested in other sizes, please contact us.