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Do different sutures require different knots?
by gilleain 4y ago
Do different sutures require different knots?
- swader999 4y agoDifferent wounds and incisions require different sutures and different suturing techniques. So yes! Students practise on poultry, cadavers and the real thing. And yeah VR too perhaps.
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- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoYes, though the traditional surgical approach requires little more than rope and string to understand. Maybe training with some instruments and fruit/cadavers. The VR is overkill for this purpose imho. I was a sceptic initially about it, but from my time with the topic of simulation training, I’m finding that there is a shortage of people who want to be doctors. And many of those that do want to go down that path are good at all sorts of things but this whole knot tying can be very challenging. Some people just have a really hard time with it.
- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoYes - we work with simulation of laparoscopic surgery, where several types of knots must be made on stiff inarticulate instruments in constrained spaces at difficult angles. It is quite an incredible skill.