Suture Kit & Instructional Online Video Package

284.95
Package Price 258.95

The suture kit included in this deluxe package includes the Fitzgerald Suture Kit in a handy pouch for storage. Practice makes perfect!

Suturing expert Theresa M. Campo, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP, FAAN, ENP-C, will help you learn how to suture through a step-by-step approach.

Dermabond and other newer products about to come on the market will be covered as an introduction to the use of a bioadhesive in the care of lacerations.

The Fitzgerald Suture Kit

Suture Pad

  • Reusable—student can continue to practice by removing completed sutures and starting over: same stitch or different one
  • Differentiated layers: epidermis, dermis, subcutaneous fat, muscle
  • Each layer's thickness realistically emulates human flesh
  • Epidermis looks and feels like real human skin
  • Both epidermis and dermis will hold suture without pulling out
  • Replaces messy pig's feet or chicken breasts

Instruments

  • Needle holder
    - To learn proper hand technique
  • Forceps
    - To aid in undermining the epidermis
    - For retraction while inserting subcutaneous stitches
  • Scissors
    - To undermine the epidermis
    - To trim the finished stitch
  • Suture Kit Bag & Sutures
    - Convenient take-away for your suture pad and instruments
    - Includes 6 sutures

Topics on the Instructional Online Lecture

  • Local wound injection
  • Anesthetizing the wound area
  • Field block
  • Digital field block
  • Preparing the wound
  • Halving
  • Needle placement and performing a simple suture
  • Running suture
  • Running locking suture
  • Horizontal mattress suture
  • Running horizontal mattress suture
  • Vertical mattress suture
  • Corner suture
  • Excising biopsy
  • Intracuticular suture
  • Proper application of bioadhesives
  • Punch biopsy and the “X” stitch
  • Staple Repair
  • Butterfly closures

Follow along and practice your suturing skills as the instructor shows you how its done. Includes a realistic pre-cut suture pad, the instruments needed, and an over three-hour step-by-step demonstration of the techniques covered.