Surgical procedures
5 important questions on Surgical procedures
What can be possible sources of contamination during surgery?
- Surgery room
- Surgeon
- Hair, Breath, Skin
- Sterile gloves, clean lab coat, hairnet, surgery mask
- Instruments
- Animal
- Fur --> remove hair and treat skin with antiseptic
- Faeces, Breath
- Other material and solutions
- instruments needs to be sterilize
What are the pre-operative preparation for surgery?
- Checklist equipment and necessities
- Asses animal health status
- Pre-emptive analgesia
- Hair removal
- Animal positioning
What is most occurring complications in surgery?
- ideal environment for bacterial growth
- lead to poor recovery and stress
- increase recovery time
- increase chances of death
- may introduce research variables
Important to think about what kind of issue you ar working with.
- Muscle tissue is highly vasculated
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What is used for wound treatment? (instruments)
- Suturing
- restore original anatomy
- needle holder
- Needles
- Thread
- absorbable thread is used in long term experiment, absorption start after two weeks
- non-absorbable thread is used in short term experiments or when thread can be removed manually
- is used to close of tissue, then you don't want absorption, it will get lose.
Interrupted stich is advised (if continuous stitch get lose, then the stitch come lose all together)
- disadvantage: pressure may not be equal distributed
- for secure suture, place surgeons - square - square knot
- square knot holds more grip than slip knot
What is the post-operative care?
- Keep animal warm
- Animal does not het dehydrated (warm saline to prevent)
- Pain relief
- Make sure animals can reach their food and water
- Daily inspect the animal for weight loss, biting, infection, signs of discomfort
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