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Minor Surgical Procedures: Instruments, Incision and Drainage, Debridement, Catheterization and Chest Drainage

Surgery II notes that run through the instruments and the everyday procedures: scalpel handles and blades with the pencil and palmar grips, Metzenbaum and Mayo scissors, forceps, needle holders and retractors, then incision and drainage of an abscess, surgical toilet and wound debridement, suture materials and wound closure, removal of a ganglion, catheterisation, circumcision, escharectomy and fasciotomy, and an underwater seal chest drain with its removal on expiration or Valsalva and the injury to the intercostal vessels and lung that can follow.

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