Comparison of knot-tying proficiency and knot characteristics for square and reversing half hitch alternating-post surgical knots in a simulated deep body cavity among novice medical students | Zendy

Vincent Wu | Zendy; Cynthia Yeung | Zendy; Edward A. Sykes | Zendy; Boris Zevin | Zendy

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Comparison of knot-tying proficiency and knot characteristics for square and reversing half hitch alternating-post surgical knots in a simulated deep body cavity among novice medical students

Author(s) -

Vincent Wu,

Cynthia Yeung,

Edward A. Sykes,

Boris Zevin

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.014217

Subject(s) - medicine , knot (papermaking) , knot tying , surgery , combinatorics , mathematics , engineering , chemical engineering

Proficiency-based knot-tying curricula have been developed for square knots for medical students, but, to our knowledge, no such curriculum exists for the reverse half hitch alternating-post (RHAP) knot. We aimed to compare medical students' knot-tying proficiency, knot-tying self-confidence and final knot characteristics for RHAP and square knots in a simulated deep body cavity.

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