Revisiting one of my most popular🧵:
Ways in which you can inadvertently damage fragile tissues when approximating them with sutures.
These ideas are important mostly when the tissue is friable, because this is when you won't get away with using sloppy technique.
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🧵regarding 'the crimp' and other technical pointers having to do with securing surgical drains with suture.
We'll go over my preferred method, other methods like the Roman sandal, some errors people make, and other factoids.
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Redo🧵 regarding PDS (polydioxanone) surgical sutures.
For reasons that will become evident later, it is useful for me to revisit an old 🧵I posted about PDS 3 years ago.
We will again go over the properties of PDS, its history, and what each of the sizes are used for.
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