CSS1 - Core Surgical ...

After completing this section, you should be able to:

1. Identify the common types of scissors used in veterinary surgery and describe their surgical applications.
   
   
2. Explain the physics of how scissors cut and how this translates into surgical applications when cutting tissue.
   
   
3. Explain why scissors come in right- and left-handed versions.
   
   
4. Explain the main advantages and disadvantages of using scissors rather than a scalpel blade to cut soft tissue.
   
   
5. Identify the three ways that scissors can be used to cut tissue.
   
   
6. Demonstrate the proper method to grip scissors and explain why scissors are gripped in this manner.
   
   
7. Demonstrate the hand and arm positions used to cut tissue with scissors.
   
   
8. Demonstrate the proper method to pass scissors, including curved scissors, to another person for immediate use in surgery.
   
   
9. Demonstrate the proper method to perform the scissor cut, push cut, and suture cut.
   
   
10. Describe how scissors can be used for blunt dissection, and list the indications for blunt dissection.