St. Louis MO., 1995. Lectures with slides and overheads, laboratory exercises, in-class case discussions. Essential skills, such as knot tying, gowning and gloving, as well as bandaging, splinting and casting techniques, are taught in both a lecture and laboratory format. Students become familiar with the equipment and materials that one finds in a standard operating room theater. They are taught to make key decisions, such as which suture material and surgical needle are appropriate for a given wound.
Students also learn proper aseptic draping techniques.
By the end of the course, they are expected to know how to recognize, properly care for, and to use surgical instruments. In the lecture portion of the course, management of traumatic injuries, ranging from simple lacerations to complicated cases like de-gloving wounds, is discussed. Finally, complicated and uncomplicated wound healing and treatments of the potential complications of surgical procedures are also presented. Harari, J. Manual of Small Animal Surgery . Lectures with slides and overheads, laboratory exercises, in-class case discussions.