This Week In Vet Science

This week in class we covered the large and many might not understand, an incredibly difficult skill to master. Suturing involves knots, needles, skills and you being able to judge spaces between the stitches and just to remember to be gentle. As this skill is difficult and you could seriously do a lot more hurting than helping, our class decided to practice on bananas. Bananas turn black if they receive too much pressure from the person suturing and they have a nice thick skin that can help beginners learn. We learned and practiced two very common sutures and one kind that was very difficult and used very often and we did not focus on.

Non - continuous suturing is when every time you make the loop through both sides of the skins and each stitch is tied separately. Non continuous required the most time and knot tying experience but it had it's advantage and you could see that each stitch you did you got better at suturing. From the first stitch to the fourth stitch my skills of judging where the needle would come out and how far to place it and the cleanness of the stitch. The banana was not feeling the love of me messing up but I feel a little more confident in the suturing sense with this stitch.

Continuous suturing is when there is a knot at each end but not every stitch is tied separately. This stitch is much quicker as you don't have to spend as much time tying the knots but it has other advantages and disadvantages. These stitches were neater as they were the second suture was the second one we did. These were the two main and most interesting things that we learned this week in vet science. Thanks for reading! :)