A Veteran Perioperative Nurse Remembers a Time When All Suture

A veteran perioperative nurse remembers a time when all suture needles had eyes,and she even had her own needle rack.She hand threaded all sutures according to the surgeon's preference.The newer sutures were originally called "atraumatic" sutures because they did not double back through a needle eye and cause tissue trauma during pulling or suturing through the tissue.Today,we call this manufacturing process of connecting the suture thread to the needle:

A) engineered crimp.
B) controlled release.
C) reverse cutting.
D) swaged.

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