Description
This video is not about the technical aspects of suture (i.e., absorption pattern, strength, etc.). It focuses on how sutures can be used to make procedures more efficient and help ensure a successful outcome. Procedures covered:
- How to tie a “sticky” slip knot
- How to bury the knot
- Enterotomy technique
- Cystotomy technique
- Abdominal closure
- Intestinal anastomosis — tips to make it easier
- Stay suture use
- Soft palate resection technique
- Finger-trap suture technique
- How to make a tie-over bandage
- Liver biopsy techniques
- Partial gastrectomy technique
- Rapid splenectomy
- Transplanting an ectopic ureter
- Surgically managing a dog bite wound
- Gastropexy technique — incisional
- Median sternotomy technique — feline
- Stretching skin to close a wound — “split shot”
