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A teaching kit is a teaching resource developed by a museum education department with to create cross-curricular learning. Such kits often include many resources, such as an educators' guide, a CD-ROM with works of art and primary sources (letters, maps, period photographs), overhead transparencies, posters, curricula, and step-by-step lesson plans.
Halsted's principles, also known as Tenets of Halsted, are the basic principles of surgical technique regarding tissue handling. [1]These key points were introduced in the late 19th century by William Stewart Halsted, co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
A surgical suture, also known as a stitch or stitches, is a medical device used to hold body tissues together and approximate wound edges after an injury or surgery. . Application generally involves using a needle with an attached length
It is possible that this is the result of recent advances in suture technology, along with increasingly risk-conscious surgical practice. Certainly modern synthetic sutures are more predictable and less prone to infection than catgut , silk and linen , which were the main suture materials used up to the 1990s.
A popular choice of elementary school teachers and children's librarians, Hop on Pop ranked sixteenth on Publishers Weekly's 2001 list of the all-time best-selling hardcover books for children. [3] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of their "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".
With a blood vessel the surgeon will clamp the vessel perpendicular to the axis of the artery or vein with a hemostat, then secure it by ligating it; i.e. using a piece of suture around it before dividing the structure and releasing the hemostat.
Catgut suture is straw-colored, and is available in sizes USP 6-0 (1 metric) to USP 3 (7 metric). Although the name implies the usage of guts of cats, there is no record of feline guts being used for this purpose. The word catgut is derived from the term kitgut or kitstring (the string used on a kit, or fiddle).