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HealthCert Education

Closing the Wound

Closing the Wound

Master the art of wound closure with this hands-on course designed for healthcare professionals. Covering foundational knot-tying techniques, suture material selection, and advanced suturing methods, this course offers step-by-step guidance on achieving optimal wound healing. Learn to choose the right closure methods for various clinical scenarios and refine your skills in simple interrupted, mattress, and subcuticular sutures. With a focus on patient-centred care and cosmetic outcomes, this course equips you with the expertise to manage wounds effectively in any practice setting.

time-icon 4.0 hrs EA | 5.0 hrs RP | 0.0 hrs OM
$195.00
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  • FLEXIBLE TIMING

  • 100% ONLINE

  • accredited Course

  • Expert instructor

The Closing the Wound course offers a comprehensive guide to effective wound closure techniques, designed for healthcare professionals seeking to enhance their procedural skills. Divided into two detailed units, this course provides practical knowledge and demonstrations to ensure participants gain confidence and proficiency in wound management.

Unit 1: Knot Tying and Suture Theory
Begin with the essentials of wound closure, focusing on selecting the appropriate closure method—staples, glues, tapes, or sutures—for different clinical situations. Key topics include:
- Suture Material Selection: Understanding absorbable vs. non-absorbable sutures, suture sizes, and needle types.
- Wound Healing Principles: Techniques for proper tension distribution, wound edge eversion, and avoiding complications such as hematomas or stitch marks.
- Knot Tying Techniques: Practice essential skills such as square knots and learn their importance in achieving secure closures. This unit lays the groundwork for surgical precision and prepares participants for hands-on suturing techniques.

Unit 2: Suturing Techniques
Building on the foundation of Unit 1, this unit dives into advanced suturing methods, including:
- Simple Interrupted Sutures: Master the most commonly used technique for wound closure.
- Vertical and Horizontal Mattress Sutures: Learn when to use these techniques for wounds requiring added tension support or when addressing challenging anatomical areas.
- Subcuticular Sutures: Explore this cosmetic approach to minimise visible scarring, ideal for facial or aesthetic closures.
- Buried Dermal Sutures: Understand their role in reducing tension and supporting wound healing from deeper layers. The unit includes practical demonstrations, detailed diagrams, and step-by-step instructions to ensure participants can confidently apply these techniques in their clinical practice.

This course is designed to help healthcare professionals refine their wound management skills, ensuring improved patient outcomes and satisfaction. From selecting the right materials to mastering advanced techniques, participants will leave equipped to handle a wide variety of wound closure challenges with confidence.

  1. Determine the steps for effective wound closure, dressing selection and wound complications.
  2. Evaluate aseptic technique and its related considerations.
  3. Evaluate practical wound management.
  4. Distinguish anatomy related to skin suturing and evaluate safe suturing of buried dermal sutures and continuous subcuticular sutures.
  5. Structure the steps for suturing including simple interrupted suture, buried dermal sutures and continuous subcuticular suture.
  6. Structure the steps for the mattress stitch – horizontal and vertical.
  7. Determine and plan the treatment of warts, skin lesions, haematomas and anorectal conditions in a simulated setting.
  8. Evaluate the importance of complete patient assessment, diagnosis, informed consent, local anaesthetics, equipment, consumables, step by step procedural instructions, post-operative care, dressings and management of complications.

All degree qualified medical practitioners.

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CPD Hours:

  • Education hours:  4.0
  • Reviewing performance hours: 5.0
  • Measuring outcome hours:  0.0
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Accreditations:

Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP) #475049

Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) #31206

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Study Mode:

100% online

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Study duration:

9.0 hrs self-paced

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER

A/Professor Maurice Brygel and Dr Peter Grossberg

This course is presented by A/Professor Maurice Brygel and Dr Peter Grossberg.

Maurice is a Melbourne general surgeon who is a pioneer in day surgery hernia repair, having performed over 10,000 hernia operations. He became known as the "hernia king" after establishing the Melbourne Hernia Clinic at Masada and Cabrini hospitals. Maurice also teaches hands-on surgical office skills, which led to him producing and presenting certificate courses in clinical procedures with HealthCert over the last five years. Maurice teaches at Notre Dame Medical School, Cabrini, the Alfred, and the Royal Australian College of Surgeons.

Peter is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and has a Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. He practices as a general surgeon and an Endoscopist in Cabrini Hospital, Malvern with extensive experience in general surgery, endoscopy, and laparoscopic surgery especially laparoscopic hernia surgery. Peter has been an examiner in surgical education at the undergraduate and postgraduate level for the past 35 years. He runs workshops for surgical trainees and GPs, particularly in office procedures.Peter has been a senior lecturer in surgery at Monash and Melbourne Universities.