Inefficient use of the needle holder by surgeons accounts for more wasted time than poor technique with any other surgical instrument. Its very possible to have a loss of time because your using your needle holder in colerboration with another medical tool (the needle), and there is a sequence of several steps in taking a stich. most other medical tools are usually more alone, or runs in conjunction with another medical instrument, in a single step maneuvers. With the un-clamping and clamping of it. It may eventually lead to wasting time.
The most common mechanisms of time lost are "stammering" and "stuttering"" with the needle holder. Stuttering describes the non-productive repetition of steps needed to be completed only once. When you get interruption in a step that could be done in only 1 motion.
Stuttering is:
1. If you change the needles direction, distance and angle from the point in the jaws of the needle holder after getting a suture from the scrub nurse.
2. Going back and forth out and in to a wound without doing a stitch, to reposition the needle's forehand-backhand direction, point of distance, angle, change the point of exposure.
Stammering happends after the needle is started into the tissue. This includes:
1. Try to oush closer to the eye of the needle.
2. You may need to do some more reapplications of the holder during extraction.
3. Superfluous motions when drawing a correct length of suture material through the wound, when a stitch is taken.
Doing this may make you lose time, may waste further of your time if the needle rotates to a less easy stance when released by the needle holder during un-necessary repositioning.
Another common mechanism of time loss while suturing is the absence of synchronized team effort between surgeon, his assistants, and scrub nurse.
More than skill, self-discipline, is obligatory to use a needle holder efficiently.
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This article is by Sean T.
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