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To: TASMANIANRED
Practice on a hunk of beef or pork.. chicken doesn’t work as well because the skin slides around.

When I went through MedLab, we used anesthetized goats as our live tissue donors.

Using meat is a good idea. In practical applications, I found that suturing actual human wounds was problematic because of thickened skin and callus's.

28 posted on 04/12/2012 1:43:11 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Money cannot buy happiness, but it's more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle.)
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To: Sarajevo

Druged goats are a little difficult to come by.

Human skin is a bit thin...

Something extensively calloused is not a great idea.. It won’t heal.

Deep wounds and shallow wounds are totally different animals..And the stress on a wound can be a problem too.

Deep wounds frequently require some “Stay Sutures’..Simple skin suturing will just tear out unless you relieve the stress on it.


32 posted on 04/12/2012 2:02:43 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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