Basic Surgical Skills

Service Description

- gowning, gloving, laying safe surgical knots and local anaesthetic management; - tissue handling practice (including for infected and contaminated tissues), along with the requirements for differing tissue sites, such as skin, bowel or vessels; electrosurgery device usage; - manipulation of endoscopic instruments in a 3D surgical environment while viewing a remote 2D image; -visuospatial awareness, management of depth cueing and control of the ‘fulcrum effect’ during endoscopic surgery.

Contact Details

• University of Surrey - Leggett Building, Daphne Jackson Road, Guildford, UK

  +44 1483688691

  alison@mattu.ac.uk