A professional who winds single or multiple lengths of surgical catgut onto fiber suture reel. Responsibilities include:

• Pulls out holding flaps on reel, inserts end of strand under one flap, and places reel on power-driven wheel.
• Presses pedal to actuate wheel and guides strand under holding flaps as wheel spins to wind precut lengths or counts wheel revolutions to measure lengths.
• Turns reels by hand when winding numerous strands.
• Cuts catgut from spool, using scissors.
• Inserts completed reels in plastic envelopes for subsequent sterilization, or into glass tubes for future use.