Loading a scalpel blade: The scalpel, Needle driver, and Blunt probe
Tool Basics:
Description of Retractors, Scissors (spreading tools), Forceps (pickups), Clamps (hemostats)
Dissection Techniques
Making an incision:
Scalpel, retractors, (rat)-toothed forceps
Tracing Veins:
Locking clamp (hemostat), spreading with an iris (pointy) scissor, removing fat with a toothed forceps, spreading/hooking with a curved (Metzenbalm) scissor
Deep Dissection I:
Protecting deep structures with the right angle forceps or blunt probe, cutting with the straight (suture) scissors, dissecting with your fingers, using your scalpel as a scraping tool
Deep Dissection II:
Splitting structures that are close together and review
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