NORTH HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced the worldwide launch of the SILS™ Stitch articulating suturing device for ...

Covidien’s V-Loc™ knotless suturing device is now available as a reload that works with the Company’s proprietary Endo Stitch™ and SILS™ Stitch suturing devices for multi-port and single-port ...

The V-Loc is designed as a reload for the company’s Endo Stitch and SILS Stitch suturing devices for multi-port and single-port laparoscopic surgery. It is intended to improve operating room ...

Sutures are medical tools used by doctors and surgeons to close a wound. Depending on your condition, a doctor will use the proper suture technique and material to stitch a wound or laceration shut.

Surgeries with the endoscope are exacting and require special capabilities of the surgeon. The suturing of the tissue and the setting of the knots, in particular, is very complicated due to the lack ...

‌Absorbable sutures, also known as dissolvable stitches, are sutures that can naturally dissolve and be absorbed by the body as a wound heals. Not all wounds are sealed with absorbable sutures.