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262 Tasks for the Veterinary Assistant

TABLE 14.1
(Continued)
Suture needles Suture needles are either
A. Cutting edge – inset 2 included with the surgical pack or
close‐up kept in “cold” sterilization trays.
The cutting edge needle is used
B. Taper – inset 1 close‐ for skin and the taper needle is
up used for tissues

C. Postmortem

A. Groove director These are auxiliary instruments
and may not be utilized in your
B. Snook’s ovariectomy clinic. The groove director helps
hook to make a straight incision line
and the snook hook is used to find
the uterine horn during a spay

FIGURE 14.13 Instruments to include in an instrument pack. See text for identification.