Wound Closure Course

28th March 2025

Course Lead
Tracey Cox
Senior Cardiothoracic Surgical Care Practitioner

Location
West Midlands Surgical Training Centre
Ground Floor, West Wing
University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust


This wound closure course is suitable for senior nurses, SCPS, junior doctors and medical students covering....

- Anatomy and physiology of wound healing
- Types of sutures and needles and their uses.
- Principles of wound closure
- Complications and surgical site infection
- Wound care and VAC therapy

Practical session

- Knot Tying
- Instrument and sharp handling.
- Simple stitch, mattress stitch (vertical, horizontal).
- Continuous stitch, subcuticular.
- Starting Knot, finishing knot.

UHCW, Coventry 28th April 2025

28th April 2025

West Midlands Surgical Training Centre Ground Floor, West Wing University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust WMSTC, UHCW

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