Week 2 Day 4

One more day and then a three day weekend! This morning we learned how to prepare the surgery site on animal by scrubbing the animal's skin to make it as clean as possible for surgery.  We also learned how to scrub up a cow for surgery and learned how to sew up a cow after surgery (all on models, not real cows).  We also got to practice suturing today on real animal tissue.  Each student had a dog leg that we could cut into and then practice suturing it up.  It was, I must say, far more interesting then suturing the canvas we had been using.  Tomorrow will be our assessment of the skills that we have learned.