This workshop is of particular relevance for GPs, Nurse Practitioners, Emergency Department Nurses and Paramedics with limited clinical exposure to minor surgical techniques and those wishing to consolidate experience.  It is strongly recommended as a foundation suturing workshop for GPs wishing to attend CTEC’s The Cutting Edge: Managing Skin and Soft Tissue Injuries workshop.

The Cutting Edge: Introductory Wound Suturing workshop features a combination of didactic sessions, demonstrations and hands-on sessions utilising animal tissue and other simulation models. It includes a one hour free practice session. Participants will be provided with a fundamentals of instrumentation quiz prior to the workshop to aid in preparedness for the procedures outlined below.

Workshop Content

Demonstration and Practical Sessions: 

• Instrument choice and handling
• Knot tying
• Suture choice
• Suture material 
• Needle safety
• Needle holders
• Simple suturing
• Mattress suture
• Making an incision
• Planning and excision
• Local anaesthetic infiltration
• Subcuticular suture - deep dermal
• Aberdeen knot
• Excising a skin lesion
• Three point suture
• Free practice - stapling and gluing

 Workshop presentations:

• General principles
• Assessment of patient
• Should you suture?
• Assessment of wound

Training Grants

The Australian Government is offering training grants of $2000 per day to rural and remote procedural and emergency medicine GPs to maintain their respective skills. Reapproval for this educational activity or a 1 Day Rural Procedural Grant in Surgery will be sought for the 2023-2025 Triennium.

For further information about the grants contact:

RACGP National Rural Faculty 
1800 636 764 
rural.procedural.grants@racgp.org.au

Workshop Inclusions

• Simulation models
• Didactic sessions
• All meals and refreshments
• Limited places to maximise practical learning time