CSS1 - Core Surgical ...

After completing this section, you should be able to:

1. Identify the major classes of surgical clamps used in veterinary surgery.
   
   
2. Describe how the jaws of surgical clamps differ from one another to suit their intended surgical applications.
   
   
3. Recognize crushing clamps and identify acceptable circumstances in which they can be used during soft tissue surgery.
   
   
4. Recognize atraumatic surgical clamps and identify acceptable circumstances in which they can be used during visceral surgery.
   
   
5. List the common types of hemostatic forceps and describe how they are chosen for clamping blood vessels and pedicles.
   
   
6. State the advantages of longitudinal versus transverse ridges with regard to vessel clamp security when using the tip and jaw clamp techniques.
   
   
7. State the applications for using right-angled forceps for tissue dissection and suture passing.
   
   
8. Demonstrate the proper hemostatic techniques for jaw and tip clamping and identify the appropriate circumstances in which to use these clamping techniques during surgery.
   
   
9. Demonstrate the two methods for releasing surgical clamps from tissue and explain the advantages of each method.
   
   
10. Demonstrate the proper technique to obstruct hollow organs with crushing clamps.
    
    
11. Demonstrate the proper technique to use atraumatic clamps to prevent leakage during visceral repair.