Our Medical Equipment Guide
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A Guide To Cleaning And Sterilizing Vet Instruments
The last thing you want at your vet clinic is to pass infections from one animal to another. Not only is this dangerous but is likely to lead to lawsuits and probable closure of your clinic. Although contamination can take place in a variety of ways, the most common source of infection is through contaminated vet instruments.Read More -
What You Need To Know About Running Corset Plication Stitches Under The Skin
The corset plication suturing technique is typically used in wounds wider than 4cm. It is suitable for wounds under excessive tension, particularly those on the shoulders and back. Corset plication suturing is a deep technique, and enables natural wound eversion and improves approximation of wound edges. Using corset plication stitches has proved to markedly reduced the diameter and tension of the wound. It also eases the following placements of intradermal stitches.Read More -
Understanding The Practicality Of Vertical Mattress Suturing
The vertical mattress suture is a suture technique derived from the simple interrupted suture. The technique differs from the interrupted suture in that it is placed deep and wide into the wound edge and another shallower interrupted stitch is placed in the opposite direction nearer to the wound edge. Vertical mattress suturing is an everting technique often used in closing wounds and approximation of the epidermis. Like many other interrupted techniques, it can be used on its own for wounds under minimum tension.Read More -
Puncture Indication Systems Can Help Detect Glove Punctures While Suturing
Gloves are extremely crucial in preventing contamination, and is a personal protective equipment that everyone wears in the operating room. However, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) policy guidelines for surgical gloves considers manufacturers whose leakage defect rates do not surpass 1.5 as having met the acceptable quality level (AQL). This means that 1.5% of surgical gloves may have defects. Even if the gloves are initially flawless, holes can be caused during the surgery by surgical needles.Read More -
An Introduction To Pulley Suturing Techniques
The pulley suture technique allows for wound margins to stretch further and is used when extra wound closure strength is required. Pulley suturing techniques depend on the effectiveness of the pulley to distribute tension to close the wound by using many loops of suture. This technique has been proved to enable a considerable reduction of the wound’s defect size and make reconstructive techniques easier. It also allows for serious skin cancer defects of the neck and head to be reconstructed in an environment like a clinic instead of an operating theatre. The pulley technique is an extremely suitable option for large wounds that cannot be closed with side-to-side stitches only, such as on legs or the scalp.Read More -
Why Are Barbed Sutures Chosen To Close Wounds?
If you're familiar enough with sutures to know what they are, but don't know the finer points of them, you may be interested to know there's a difference between conventional suture material and barbed sutures. That is not the only difference between sutures, of course, but it is what we’re going to concentrate on here.
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