Where should you make the two horizontal incisions through the muscles?

1. Can we put horizontal incision across rectus abdominis muscle?
2. Which of the following is muscle splitting incision?
3. Are muscles cut during abdominal surgery?
4. Is vertical or horizontal incision better?
5. Which instrument used to make an incision on the abdomen?
6. What is incisional surgery?
7. What is battle incision?
8. Can Muscle be sutured?
9. Where on what structure would you make an incision for the laparotomy to remove the spleen?
10. What's the difference between horizontal and vertical?
11. What is vertical and horizontal?

Can we put horizontal incision across rectus abdominis muscle?

Using a sharp no. 10 scalpel blade, the rectus tendons are transected transversely 1–2 cm distal to the superior edge of the pubic bone. Rectus muscle should never be cut. The rectus muscles are retracted and the peritoneum opened.

Which of the following is muscle splitting incision?

Gridiron incision: It is a muscle-splitting oblique incision made at the right lower part of the abdomen. It is used for appendectomy.

Are muscles cut during abdominal surgery?

Midline incision

It utilises the relatively avascular nature of the linea alba to access the abdominal contents without cutting or splitting muscle fibres in the process, with the exception of the small pyramidalis muscle at the pubic crest.

Is vertical or horizontal incision better?

The transverse incision results in significantly less postoperative pain and fewer pulmonary complications. Vertical laparotomy, however, is associated with shorter operating time and better possibilities for extension of the incision.

Which instrument used to make an incision on the abdomen?

The incision is usually made with a scalpel, although cutting cautery is also an option for the skin cut. Then, coagulative cautery is used to dissect the subcutaneous fat and superficial fascial layers down to the rectus sheath.

What is incisional surgery?

When medicines and laser surgeries do not lower eye pressure adequately, doctors may recommend a procedure called filtering surgery (also called incisional surgery). In filtering surgery, a tiny drainage hole is made in the sclera (the white part of the eye) in a procedure called a trabeculectomy or a sclerostomy.

What is battle incision?

a paramedian incision through the anterior and posterior rectus sheaths with medial retraction of the intact rectus abdominis.

Can Muscle be sutured?

Our study has shown that the better method of repair for suturing muscle is the use of combination stitches. Direct muscle trauma is common^1–3 and discontinuity of muscle bellies is an indication for surgery. However, the best suturing technique is not known.

Where on what structure would you make an incision for the laparotomy to remove the spleen?

The surgeon makes an incision across the middle or left side of your abdomen underneath the rib cage. After locating the spleen, the surgeon disconnects it from the pancreas and the body's blood supply, and then removes it.

What's the difference between horizontal and vertical?

A vertical line is any line parallel to the vertical direction. A horizontal line is any line normal to a vertical line. Horizontal lines do not cross each other.

What is vertical and horizontal?

In geometry, we use the words vertical and horizontal for standing and sleeping respectively. ... Anything parallel to the horizon is called horizontal. As vertical is the opposite of horizontal, anything that makes a 90-degree angle (right angle) with the horizontal or the horizon is called vertical.