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BSS GP Indonesia 2018-2 PDF
BSS GP Indonesia 2018-2 PDF
Indonesia 2018
SAFETY FIRST !
• NEVER DIRECTLY HANDLE SHARPS WITH YOUR
FINGERS (i.e. blades or needles)
• Pass sharps in a kidney dish to your assistant /
nurse
• Safety of all is responsibility of operating surgeon
• Always dispose of sharps in a sharps bin
− not on patient or operating table!
• In case of injury
• assess the injury
• assess patient status
Handling Instruments
Basic Principles:
• Safety
• Economy of movement
• Relaxed handling
• Avoidance of awkward movement
Handling Instruments (cont.)
Cutting Instruments:
• Scalpel
- attachment
- detachment
- holding - like a table knife
- like a pen
- cutting
- passing the scalpel in a kidney dish
• Artery Forceps
• Needle Holders
Knots
• Knot-tying is a fundamental technique in
surgery, and is often performed badly
• Uses of knots:
− Tying sutures
− Ligation (tying vessels)
General Principles of Knot-Tying
• Firm and unable to slip
• Small, to minimise foreign material and
foreign body reaction
• Don’t ‘saw’ the material – it will weaken the
thread
• Don’t damage it by grasping with instruments
except at the free end
General Principles of Knot-Tying
• Avoid excessive tension
• Avoid tearing tissue
• Apply tension horizontally
Secure knot
Standard > 3 throw for
knot tying multifilaments
> 6 throws for
monofilaments
Surgeon’s knot
Handling Sutures
• Tension – attempt to remove all elements of
tension from any anastomosis
• Insert needle at right angles to the tissue and
gently advance through the tissue, avoiding
shearing forces
• As a rough rule of thumb, the distance from the
edge of the wound should correspond to the
thickness of the tissue
• Successive sutures should be placed at twice
this distance apart, i.e. double the depth of
tissue sutured.
•
x (tissue thickness)
x 2x
x
x
x
Interrupted Suture
Long wound : half – half
3 2 3 1 3 2 3
Ellipse
≥3X
Ellipse
•X
•≥3X
Closure of Ellipse
Handling Sutures (cont.)
• All sutures should be placed at right angles to
the line of the wound at the same distance from
wound edge and same distance apart in order
for tension to be equal down the wound length
wound
edge parallel, same distance
apart, same distance
from edge