Undergraduate Medical Education

CSI 202 Skills Lab # 6: 

Simple Suturing

 

OBJECTIVES/COMPETENCIES: At the end of this lab, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate and review appropriate Simple Suturing: indications, contraindications, technique, and equipment. 
• Demonstrate and review appropriate Anesthetic: indications, contraindications, technique, and equipment.  
• Demonstrate proper technique of wound irrigation.
• View video tape on Basic Suturing.

Read Basic Suturing in the Student Procedure Manual; view video on Basic Laceration Repair; and Review above web page prior to the session.  Take on-line pre-test prior to the "Zoom" scheduled review: pretest, discussion, and question/answer. After the Zoom session, student groups will attend a scheduled lab session for a procedure demonstration and practice. Students will report to the Skills Lab to demonstrate the procedure/skill on either an anatomical model or patient simulator.    

 

WEB BASES INFORMATION / NOTES :

http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic828.htm
 

LSU Health New Orleans – Needle Stick Injury

1. Wash and clean injury/flush mucous membranes immediately.
2. Assess risk.
3. Characterize exposure.
4. Evaluate exposure by medical history (Student Health: Source Risk Questionnaire).
5. Evaluate and test exposed individuals.
6. Perform Quick HIV test - this test is usually available at your nearest hospital ER. The rapid HIV test should be performed on the Source Patient.
7. Decide whether or not Prophylaxis is needed.

www.lsuhsc.edu/orgs/studenthealth/needlestickinjury.aspx

 

EQUIPMENT :  None

 

DRESS :  Comfortable Clothes.

 

Updated: 5/1/24

 

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