Designed by Maxillofacial and Oral Surgeon with ample experience in the ER. More than 95% of lacerations one will encounter in the ER will be one of the following patterns or a combination of these: Linear: One can use almost any suturing method – including sub-cuticular suturing. Suture the deeper layers properly before suturing the surface layer. Zig-zag: Anchor the triangular-shaped tips into the depths of the defects (these serve as landmarks) – using interrupted sutures. The use further interrupted or mattress sutures to close the balance of the laceration. Wavy: A bit the same as the zig-zag. Be sure to avoid using a continuous suture here – it will distort any laceration with a curve. Stellate: Recommend using some form of a circular suture in the center (first dissect the various arms lose from the base of the pad), then use interrupted or mattress sutures to close the "arms" of the star. V/Y-shaped: Start at the tip of the triangle with a modified, interrupted suture, the use your method of choice to close the legs/arms of the "Y." Gunshot injuries are typically stellate, and once sutured, one is often left with a central remaining round defect. However, that is quite normal and is commonly corrected as a secondary procedure by wound revision and having left enough time for healing and wound contraction. Do not over-stretch the friable tissue. Let this part of the wound granulate. It is surprising how often the body's healing mechanisms will address this and leave an aesthetically pleasing result after the process of wound contraction. The fake skin is mesh reinforced (below the surface and vertical mesh in the region of the linear laceration) to prevent the suture thread from easily tearing through the silicone. Good technique is also required to avoid tearing. Using excessive forces will tear through biological tissue as well – thus, be gentle!
A**M
Solid Suture Practice Kit for Medical Students and Residents
I am a resident physician and I picked up this kit to improve my suturing and tying skills. I am impressed by the quality given the relatively low cost and would recommend this kit to practicing medical students and residents. Overall, it is a complete package and would recommend it for the reasons below.Pros:1. Good set of materials and sutures, total of 8 sutures2. The silicone skin offers a varying degree of cuts and lacerations to practice on.3. The practice string is two toned to help beginners4. You can use the kit on pork belly with pork skin for a very similar feel to humanCons:1. The silicone skin block does not feel like real skin, and gets damaged by the needle nose tweezers2. The silicone skin also emits a horrible chemical odor. I needed to put out in the living room to air it out.3. No clear instructions to tie or suture but you can easily find videos online anyhwereOverall, would buy this again and recommend this to any of my colleagues in need of practice.
A**R
Great value and service
Very satisfied with this product - I was hesitant to pay almost 30 dollars for a suture kit, but I really wanted good quality items to practice for my surgery rotation. I am beyond happy with this purchase. Everything fits in a high quality, compact case. Includes a "skin pad" with many different sized/shaped cuts - it has a kind of tacky feeling that I dont like, but it doesn't leave any residue on your hands or anything. The skin pad alone is a 15 dollar value, easy. The kit also includes x4 silk braided suture, x4 nylon monofilament, and x2 chronic catsuit suture, which is a nice variety of material to practice with. The tools are also high quality and easy to use, but nothing special. There is a string, half of which is colored red and half white - for practicing hand-tying your knots. There are a couple bottle caps included to create some sort of bridge for tying, but I think these are unnecessary and I threw them out. Theres even a plastic ruler and fine tip marker in the kit. Especially with the included online access to the instructional lectures and the contact from the seller to ensure customer satisfaction, I would say this has to be one of the best suturing kits on the Amazon market. Highly recommend for medical students wanting to impress their surgery attendings with their suturing skills!
G**E
Ebooks do not match the supplies needed
The ebooks do not match the equipment that is needed, like scaffold, cutting sizers etc. makes it kinda hard to follow along. I have been sticking since I was about eight years old. I was raised on a farm. I am also trained in first aid, BBP, CPR. So I know what I am doing. The best thing if someone gets a bad injury, like breaks a leg, and the bone is sticking out is to stop the bleeding. Monitor their vitals, keep them calm until medics get there. I recently had a incident with my sisters dog removing her stitches. She was wide open and the vet was closed. I cleaned the wound, gave her lanacane, and stapled her up. Once we got her to the vet, he said that he would have done the same thing. He looked at the staples and asked who stapled her up. I told him I did, he replied that he could not have done any better, and left them in her. It was about a four inch cut. I am not looking to perform surgery on the side of the road. But knowing what to do is more important than trying to stitch someone up. Common sense goes a long ways. Just saying, I’ve done a lot of sticking in my life on the farm. The book doesn’t match the equipment provided.
P**J
For the SHTF kit
We got this to learn how to do sutures in a SHTF situation. The events of the past year have taught us that situations could arise when you may not have access to medical care. So we have quite an extensive home medical kit. There are many videos on YouTube to help guide you and teach you how to do sutures. This even comes with instructions that are online.While this is a learning tool,......not for medical use,.........in a situation where you don't have access to medical care,....
D**N
GREAT KIT FOR PA CANDIDATES!!!
Set yourself apart from the crowd by completing a FULL SUTURE INTENSIVE before your interview!! I LOVE THIS COURSE! Everything is so well explained and the Surgeon/Author obviously knows his stuff! I was thrilled when, after following the instructions and reviewing the demonstrations on the videos, I was able to tie a surgeons knot on the multi-wound simulation suture pad. All of the materials you need are in the case except gloves. I recommend you buy gloves to fit snugly and suture with them on right from the start. The instrumentation included was not the cheapo kind and performed well. You can complete an online assessment module and receive a Suturing Certificate with the purchase of the mini or standard kit. I am tempted to buy the larger, Standard Suture kit as well -just for fun!
M**H
Low quality
Regardless of how large of a bite you take the suture material cannot be pulled through without the pad tearing. And if you manage to approximate the edges for your knot, the pad will tear as soon as you start tying
A**Y
Kids loved it
This was a Christmas gift to my niece. I try to buy them oddball educational stuff that I know they would otherwise never be exposed to. I don't know if they were humoring me, but the kids really seemed to enjoy it. They spent a good amount of time on Christmas day suturing, when they had plenty of other gifts they could play with.
D**K
Not very impressive
I really thought I would get the books, but alas, another e book. The pad is pretty thin and I was disappointed that the box came in smashed. It does have a rubberized smell. I guess that what I should have expected for just under $20.
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