Understanding Medical Assistant Practice Liability Issues
Remove sutures or staples from superficial incisions or lacerations. Perform ear lavage to remove impacted cerumen. Collect by noninvasive techniques, and reserve specimens for testing, …
Understanding Medical Assistant Practice Liability Issues
Remove sutures or staples from superficial incisions or lacerations. Operate diagnostic equipment but cannot interpret tests. Provide patient information and instructions.
Purse-String Suture Helps Pain, Healing Time, Not Scar - Medscape
2014年3月25日 · It is a common claim that the purse-string suture, a rapid and simple technique routinely used to close circular wounds on the trunk and extremities, reduces scarring, Dr. Joo …
Wet Sutures -- Are They Safe? A Viewpoint - Medscape
2006年6月15日 · Can Sutures Get Wet? Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial of Wound Management in General Practice . Heal C, Buettner P, Raasch B, et al BMJ. 2006;332:1053 …
When Sutures Get Wet - Medscape
Summary. Clinicians (and published guidelines) encourage patients to keep sutures dry and dressed for 1 to 2 days after surgery, presumably to diminish the risk for wound infections.
Sometimes Unnecessary to Suture Punch Biopsy Sites - Medscape
Second-intention healing may be as good as sutures for 4 mm punch biopsy sites but not for 8 mm sites. Patients with the larger size lesions report more pain and less satisfaction with gel …
Medical Assistants and Technicians: What Can They Do, Legally?
2017年10月10日 · In some states, suturing, a "nonsurgical technical act," would be delegable to a medical assistant, if the physician is on-site. The legal reasoning is that surgery is a medical …
Minimally Invasive Esophageal Procedures - Page 4 - Medscape
These stitches remove any tension from the second row of sutures. (Enlarge Image) Laparoscopic Heller myotomy with anterior partial fundoplication (Dor procedure).
Open Globe Management - Page 7 - Medscape
Full-thickness, non-selfsealing corneal lacerations require repair in the operating room with 10- 0 or 11-0 nylon sutures. Saline, viscoelastics, and air may all be used to maintain the AC during ...
Advice to New Surgeons on an Approach to Wound Closure
2024年3月28日 · In providing advice to new orthopedic surgeons, Derek F. Amanatullah, MD, PhD, believes they should consider balancing efficiency with patient outcomes when choosing …