Its a fact that the common surgeon will lose more time with a needle holder compared to any other medical instrument. Its very possible to lose time because your using your needle holder in conjuction with another medical tool (the needle), and there is a sequence of several steps in taking a stich. most other medical tools are usually more alone, or in parallel with other surgical instrument, in one-step maneuvers. With the clamping and un-clamping of it. It may eventually lead to wasting time.
The most common mechanisms of time lost are "stuttering" and "stammering" with the needle holder. When you do a non-productive repetition of steps to be completed only once. This is called Stuttering. Stammering describes interruption during a step that could be done with one motion.
Stuttering includes:
1. Any repositioning of the needle's angle, direction and distance by the part in the jaws of the needle holders after receiving a suture from the scrub nurse.
2. Repeatedly going into & out of a wound without doing a stitch, to reposition the needle's angle, point distance, forehand-backhand direction, or to change the exposure.
Once the needle has entered the tissue, this is called stammering. This includes:
1. Try to oush closer to the eye of the needle.
2. One or more reapplications of the holder during extraction of the needle from the tissue.
3. Superfluous motions when drawing a correct length of suture material through the wound, when a stitch is taken.
Stammering, besides losing time due to redundant maneuvers, may waste further time if the needle rotates to a less easy position when released by the needle holder during un-necessary repositioning.
When your not coordinated you can loss time with your group, his assistants, & scrub nurse.
Self-discipline, more than skill, must be done by using a needle holder the proper way.
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