Surgical Skills

Surgical Skills – tutorials for health professionals who work with wound closure

Surgical Skills – Learn how to suture will provide you with a thorough introduction to suturing and correct knot tying techniques.

You will learn the basic principals of safe and correct surgical practice.

45+ educational videos will explain and show you how to optimise your clinical skills.

The app is built for students and health professionals who work with wound closure.

The app has been developed by a plastic surgeon, a gynaecologist and midwives with vast experience in clinical practice and the education of medical students.

Contents:

Wound healing theory

Correct handling of instruments

Needles

Correct choice and handling of suture material

Stable instrument tied knots

Hand tied knots

Self-locking knots

U-sutures

Mattress sutures

Inverted stitches

Continuous sutures

Functions:

• Photos, video and medical illustrations

• ’My downloads’: Your downloaded videos and sound files, which you can also use offline.

• Clinical tips

• Access to a database with the latest clinical research

The app has been developed by GynZone in collaboration with:

• Plastic surgeon Tine Engberg Damsgaard, senior consultant, PhD and external lecturer at Aarhus University

• Gynaecologist Karl Møller, senior consultant, PhD and external lecturer at Aarhus University

• Midwife Sara Kindberg, clinical specialist, PhD and international lecturer

• Midwife Sarah Hjorth Andersen, e-learning developer