Mark Coventry Award: Efficacy of Saline Wash Plus Antibiotics Doped Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Composite (PVA-VAN/TOB-P) in a Mouse Pouch Infection Model

Syntheses and Fabrication of Sensitive Bioactive Surgical Sutures from Human Hair Based on GO/PVA Composite for Biomedical Application

“…The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed the use of a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) implant for surgical application [10] and approved that is safe and biocompatible [11]. So, PVA has been used as a backbone in many suture techniques [12,13].…”