one little piggy went to the market...

apparently they drew the line when it came to practicing suturing on each other. don't worry because it was okay to blindly jab at each other with needles when it came to phlebotomy, but not so much as to when it came to learning to actually throw stitches. for this i am grateful :)


this was actually really neat. we learned several different stitches which are each good for different things depending on the friability of the tissue, situation of the trauma, if if its in an area that needs to be aesthetically pleasing etc. if it's a laceration where you need to control the tension of each stitch-- the interrupted stitches are the most common for trauma and something like a running stitch is more common in plastics which will leave a nicer scar, but you also have to consider that the person was healthy enough to undergo elective surgery to begin with and didn't just come into the er after their car lost a battle with a tree...

we also learned how to properly 'gown' meaning the procedure that surgeons and anyone present in the operating room must go through in order to become and remain sterile. i'm suppperrr glad we did this, it entails quite a bit of detail and i'm pretty sure i would have looked like an idiot otherwise, ok i still look like an idiot but at least i'm an 'informed' moron. there's one part of the sequence when your arms are in the sleeves of the gown and you have to put on your gloves without taking your hands out--kinda felt like a little kid with mittens on who was a teensy bit retarded trying to tie her shoes, not gonna lie.

p.s. above is my actual pigs foot :)