Veterinary Surgical Nursing

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Veterinary Surgical Nursing

• NEEDLES

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Swaged needles

• Less trauma
• Cost more

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Eyed needles

• More trauma
• Cheaper
• Thread placed from inside curvature

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Threading eyed needles

• Dont double-thread!
• French eye stops suture falling out
• Without increasing width

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a French Eye
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Body shapes

• Straight
• Use fingers
• Purse strings
• Curved
• Use needle-holders
• 3/8,1/2 general Sx
• 1/4 eye surgery Sx
• Half-curved

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Eye shapes
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Cross sections
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Body-Point combinations

• Taper point
• Blunt point
• Regular cutting
• Reverse cutting
• Side cutting
• Taper cut

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Taper point (round)

• Muscle
• Skeletal
• Intestinal
• Fat

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Blunt point

• Liver
• Kidney
• Lung

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Regular cutting

• Skin
• Linea alba

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Reverse cutting

• Resist cut-outof sutures
• Cornea

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Side cutting

• Also calledspatula point
• Cornea

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Taper cut

• Combination of
• Taper point body
• Reverse cutting tip
• Tendons
• Ligaments
• Blood vessels

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Bent Needles

• Blunt needles cause more tissue trauma
• Bent needles are probably blunt
• The only good bent needle is a dead needle
  discard it !

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Advantages of swaged needles

• Minimal tissue damage as needle and suture
  material are same diameter
• No threading
• Needle is new and sharp
• Sterility guaranteed
• Cannot become unthreaded during use

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Disadvantages swaged needles

• Extra cost
• May not be able to get needle and suture
  combination for all choices

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