ITEMS SUPPLIED BY SCRUB
ILLUSTRATION
PROCEDURE BY SURGEON
ILLUSTRATION
3.
3. With knife #4 and blade #20,
3. "Skin knife/scalpel (#4 knife
3.
the skin incision is made. In
handle with #20 blade)
making this primary incision,
the surgeon may apply
#4 knife handle
NOTE: When the knife
tension to the skin in one of
three ways:
handle and blade are put
together as one, it can be
1) by pulling the skin
called knife or scalpel.
upward at the upper end of
the wound, cutting through
#20 blade
the taut skin and shifting
tension as he progresses
downward;
2) by effecting pressure
laterally to make the skin taut
and side to side;
3) by exerting pressure in a
downward direction, using a
gentle outward pull to keep
the skin taut.
After making the skin
incision, the surgeon returns
the "skin knife" to the scrub
who covers the blade and
places the wound skin knife
on the back table.
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