By Sara Habibipour
You’ve probably heard of someone getting stitches before. In fact, you may have even had an experience in which you needed to go to the emergency room for this procedure. Well, this quarantine, I taught myself how to suture, and I’d love to teach you as well! It’s actually quite simple, and anyone can do it. Literally…anyone can do it. You can buy a kit on Amazon!
The kit only costs $25 dollars for all of this practice material! It includes a suture pad with various shapes of wounds, reusable suture threads and needles, and all of the tools you could possibly need. But, I only really use the needle forceps and the tweezers, which I’ll show in a bit.
There are several suturing techniques, and oftentimes the technique you use varies on the type of cut. But, today, I’ll be teaching the two-hand surgical tie and the instrument tie. It’s quite difficult to explain through words, so here’s a video with voiceover instead!
I hope you learned something new from me, future doctor Sara! Even if you don’t plan on performing suturing techniques, if you ever need to get stitches, you’ll know exactly what is going on (which is actually calming for a lot of people)! Note that I’m self-taught and not a trained medical professional, so I’m not very good, but, hey, it’s still fun! If you are interested in practicing, the link to the Amazon product is here.
Suture away!
Learned-Something-New Editor: Hannah Hall
Sara,
You have a great future ahead of you as a doctor. I have had stitches a few times, also my son did as a boy. While I’m not likely to try this myself, I did appreciate knowing about the kits for practice. Very interesting article! Well done.
Your enthusiasm for surgical practice is clear and hopefully you will have a chance to shadow a surgical team soon , Dr.Sara 🙂
Sara,
This is jaw-dropping.
The most practical (and professionally respectable)
post I have ever seen on The Bird.
I am so proud of my Renaissance Girl!!
(and my octogeneriactic Doctor to-be)
Sarky