Product Manual

The root origin of the word education is educare or to anglicize it, edu-care. The meaning

of education, therefore, is to care for, to nourish, to cause to grow. This being their ultimate

responsibility, teachers of surgery should be the most responsive component of the instruction

system. Numerous other pressing clinical and administrative commitments, however, often

limit interactions with the medical students, nurses, nurse practitioners physician assistants,

surgical residents and surgeons. Consequently, learning difficulties may not be identified.

This manual was designed to be a self-instructional teaching aid for the medical student,

resident, and surgeon providing an individualized environment of learning. For convenience,

each page of this manual has wide margins to accommodate personal thoughts and further

clarification. This manual is bound in a ring binder so that it lies flat, a prerequisite for any

knot tying manual. The reader should take as little or as much time as needed to digest the

information and to develop the illustrated psychomotor skills. At the end of this instruction,

you should feel considerably more comfortable in understanding the science of tying surgical

knots. More importantly it is our hope that this manual will inspire, motivate, and encourage

creativity and self-direction in your study of the biology of wound repair and infection.

This Knot Tying Manual is available online at www.covidien.com/syneture.

I. individualized self instruction