In the Emergency Room, Sugical scissors are most frequently used for cutting. Most scissors are designed for use with the right-handed grip that gives direction control & precision of cuts. Having a thumb-ring grip gives the greatest control and movability that applies maximal closing, shear & torque forces with a natural grip-ping motion of the right hand.
For the biggest movabilty, have a neutral hand postion of the surgical scissors in all directions. The hand has minimal movement and can rotate freely around the prone postion.
If the flaccid tissue us successfully placed accurately between the surgical scissors then it can be slice just fine. When surgical scissors slice, they give power, torque & shear to give an exact cut. Push-cutting allows straight cuts along the grain of a sheet of tissue. "chewing it" happens when you jagged & crusehd wound stuck between the blades of surgical scissors lacking in slicing force.
When your cutting sutures with your scissor tip, search for the knot in between the slightly spread blades, rather than underneath the surgical scissors. Use the left hand, the patient's body, or another stable structure as a fulcrum to steady the scissors when making fragile cuts or when held by antoher person cutting sutures. When your cutting a row of sutures, place the structure in your left hand so that each one becomes taut as you cut it and they do this so that the slice sutures are held out of the way.
By seperating the scissors while inside the tissue planes, blunt cutting can be done or by using the surgical scissors as a probe or rake. Blind dissection is occasionally useful between tissue planes away from vital structures.
for better visibility & maneuverability use curved scissors, Straight surgical scissors give the best possible mechanical advantadge when cutting through thick, tough skin.
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This editorial is by Mat Z.
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