Surgical sutures — List of knots

See surgical_sutures.md for some of the "sutures 101" beginner details.

Suture knots (instrument ties only)

AnimatedKnots.com:

• Square knot
• Surgeon's knot [wikipedia]
• Constrictor:
  • Around method
  • Forceps slide method — Only works when you can slide it over one end of the object you're tying it around.
  • Howard Taylor method
  • Retrieving end method (how is this different than the Howard method?)

Fishing   🔎

• Improved clinch knot [wikipedia]
• Orvis knot — Used to tie the tippet to the leader [diagram]