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Sutures & Surgical Specialities
One Portfolio. All Clinical Requirements. Designed for Clinical Confidence.
From skin closure and soft tissue approximation through to cardiovascular procedures and abdominal wall reconstruction, our Core Sutures Portfolio delivers a complete wound closure offering, supported by education, implementation expertise and clinical partnership.
Organisations may also realise potential cost savings of over 30% through portfolio standardisation and conversion from incumbent suppliers, whilst maintaining existing clinical workflows and surgical techniques.1
We offer familiar, like-for-like polymers with an over 97% like-for-like conversion rate2, to simplify transition whilst maintaining clinical confidence.
Smaller Trust: Potential savings of
£ 0k
per annum1
(Based on £400k annual spend)
Medium Trust: Potential savings of
£ 0k
per annum1
(Based on £670k annual spend)
Large Trust: Potential savings of
£ 0k
per annum1
(Based on £1.3m annual spend)
A full suite of absorbable and non-absorbable sutures supporting routine, specialist and complex surgical procedures.
Supporting theatre teams, surgical trainees and consultants through practical training, wound closure education and skills development programmes.
Helping trusts consolidate wound closure requirements through a single portfolio while maintaining clinical confidence and continuity of practice.
Manufactured within B. Braun's European Centre of Excellence for sutures in Barcelona, supporting consistent quality and supply reliability.
Successful wound closure begins with selecting the appropriate suture for the tissue being repaired. Different tissues heal at different rates, requiring varying levels of wound support.
B. Braun's comprehensive sutures portfolio provides short, medium, long and extra-long-term strength retention, allowing clinicians to match suture performance to patients' healing requirements, independent of their disease state.
This approach helps to ensure appropriate support throughout the critical wound healing period and beyond, whilst providing you with the correct clinical option to support tissue healing.
Monomax® has been developed to support evidence-based closure methodology through:
When used as part of a small bites closure strategy, Monomax® can contribute to approaches designed to reduce future incisional hernia recurrence and optimise long-term abdominal wall outcomes.
Find out more about Monomax®
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Education sits at the centre of B. Braun's wound closure philosophy. We actively support NHS surgical teams through:
Introducing a new wound closure portfolio should be clinically straightforward and operationally efficient. Our specialist wound closure team works alongside trusts to support:
| B. Braun Product | Polymer | Absorbability | Tissue Support Characteristics | J&J Ethicon Equivalent Brand | Comment |
| Novosyn® | Polyglactin 910 (PGLA) | Absorbable | ~21 days | Vicryl™ | Match |
| Novosyn® CHD | Polyglactin 910 (PGLA) | Absorbable | ~21 days | Vicryl™ Plus | Polymer Match, antimicrobial coating |
| Novosyn® Quick | Fast-absorbing PGLA | Absorbable | ~5 days | Vicryl Rapide™ | Match |
| Monosyn® | Co-polymer Glyconate | Absorbable | ~17 days | Monocryl™ | Equivalent proprietary polymer |
| MonoPlus® | Polydioxanone (PDO) | Absorbable | ~28 days | PDS™ II | Match |
| Optilene® | Polypropylene+ Polyethylene (5%) | Non-absorbable | Indefinite | Prolene™ | Polymer match with additional Polyethylene to aid handling |
| Dafilon® | Polyamide (Nylon) | Non-absorbable | Indefinite | Ethilon™ | Match |
| Silkam® | Silk | Non-absorbable | Indefinite | Mersilk™ | Match |
| PremiCron® | Coated Polyester | Non-absorbable | Indefinite | Ethibond Excel™ | Match |
1. Data on file at B. Braun UK, from a mid-sized English NHS Trust. Data correct as of May 2025.
2. Data on file at B. Braun UK.
3. Data on file Lab No. 3080, 04200, 3450, 4198.
4. Muysoms, F. E., Antoniou, S. A., Bury, K., Campanelli, G., Conze, J., Cuccurullo, D., de Beaux, A. C., Deerenberg, E. B., East, B., Fortelny, R. H., Gillion, J. F., Henriksen, N. A., Israelsson, L., Jairam, A., Jänes, A., Jeekel, J., López-Cano, M., Miserez, M., Morales-Conde, S., Sanders, D. L., Simons, M. P., Śmietański, M., Venclauskas, L.., Berrevoet, F. (2015)European Hernia Society guidelines on the closure of abdominal wall incisions. Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery, 19(1), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10029-014-1342-5
5. Data on file RDR/DID/MON/MAU/13118.
6. Covered by patent EP 1638615 B1 (Polyhydroxyalkanoate medical textiles and fibers).
7. Deerenberg, E.B., Henriksen, N.A., Antoniou, G.A., Antoniou, S.A., Bramer, W.M., Fischer, J.P., Fortelny, R.H., Gök, H., Harris, H.W., Hope, W. et al. (2022) ‘Updated guideline for closure of abdominal wall incisions from the European and American Hernia Societies’, BJS, 109(12), pp. 1239-1250. doi: https://www.britishherniasociety.org/closure-of-abdominal-wall-incisions/
