Outline

This product is a comprehensive trainer for teaching all surgical knot tying techniques.

Skills Gained

· Slip knot

· Instrument tie

· Surgeon’s knot

· One-handed reef knot technique

· Tying in a limited opening

· Tying at depth vertically, at an angle, in a large opening

      · Suture cutting

· Ligation

· Using vessel clamp

Features

· Realism: 

  Parallel knotting tubes are elastic for a realistic response

· Key Features:

  1)   Cylinders are transparent to allow the trainer to observe and assess trainees’ competence

  2)   Unique magnetic system to represent tissue strength

  3)   Small, shallow fixed cylinder for tying in a small area

  4)   Large, deep removable cylinder, reversible for angled abdominal and gynecological depth tying

  5)   Compact and light

  6)   Vessel ligation module for practice of using vessel clamp, incision and ligation