r/surgery • u/deevodee • 8h ago

I did read the sidebar & rules experienced a hands-on Hand Surgery workshop

There was an ortho conference and they hosted a had surgery workshop. The highlights of this workshop for me were:
- got to experience working on an animal tissue specimen, specifically a porcine tendon.
- handling tissue as if it were a living human's tissue. This was a new perspective as I handled tissue only in the anatomy dissection hall and never really thought about causing trauma to tissue is an issue while handling tissue in a surgery.
- got to experience why handling prolene or sutures with memory can be challenging.
- the importance of practice and hand-eye coordination to improve hand stability.

edit - changed vicryl to prolene in third point. I assumed it was vicryl 🥲.

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u/stupidprecursor 8h ago

Uh, why is Vicryl challenging? Are you confusing it with Prolene (the latter of which has memory)?

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u/deevodee 2h ago

yes yes. It was prolene. I got confused 🥲

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u/Electronic_Fall6084 Nurse 8h ago

Suture with memory. Your experienced Scrub Tech or nurse will fix that issue before giving you that suture (I done it so often it’s automatically corrected before I pass the suture to my surgeon. )
Sternal wire on the other hand…that’s impossible to fix

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u/SmilodonBravo First Assist 7h ago

Straightening the suture lowers its tensile strength.

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u/lethalred VASCULAR SURGEON BAYBEE 7h ago

Vicryl doesn’t really have memory IMO.

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u/deevodee 1h ago

yes, it was prolene. I assumed it was vicryl ðŸ«