Coated surgical needle

In a process for coating surgical needles, a levelling coat is applied to a surface of a surgical needle in one step or in several steps to fill in and/or level out surface roughnesses and then a slip coating is applied to the levelling coat. The levelling coat is preferably applied by immersing the needle in a solution of a condensable polymethylsiloxane in n-heptane, evaporating off the solvent and curing the siloxane. The slip coating is preferably supplied by immersing the coated needle in a solution of a polydimethylsiloxane having amino and alkoxy groups in n-heptane and evaporating off the solvent.

Process for coating surgical needles