Core Surgical Skills ...

In this lesson, you will learn how to perform basic instrument tie techniques, as well as several useful hand tie techniques. Instrument and hand ties are core surgical skills that every novice surgeon must master in order to become proficient in performing basic surgical procedures. To perform these techniques properly, you will need to understand the steps involved in performing the maneuvers, and you will need to practice them regularly until you can correctly perform them automatically, without consciously thinking about it.

Learning Objectives

1. Be able to adjust the suture strands by gathering and sliding with your left and right hands to achieve an appropriate working distance for knot tying.
2. Create a square knot using the instrument technique.
3. Create a surgeon's knot using the instrument technique.
4. Know the steps that should be taken to avoid creating a granny knot and slip knot, and know how to identify these knots when they are accidentally created.
5. Be able to construct a square knot with a one- and two-hand tie technique.
6. Be able to complete a square knot in a deep plane with a two-hand technique.