Wound Reconstruction - A Practical Day
University of Nottingham
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Date: Wednesday 26th November, 2025 - Wednesday 26th November, 2025
Start time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Duration: 8 hour(s)
Cost: £746.25
This will be a practical based cadaver course on wound reconstructive surgery in cats and dogs. We will cover the theory of skin tension and ways to minimize this, with case based discussions on simple methods such as suture technique, through to more advanced methods such as flaps. We will then carry out the second half of the day in the practical room where we will practice tension free wound closure techniques and put our theoretical knowledge into practice.
Topics to be covered
Suturing techniques to minimize tension
The use of walking sutures, undermining and multi-layer closures
Local skin flaps (advancement, rotation, transposition, skin fold)
Axial pattern flaps – covering the most common
Learning Objectives
To gain knowledge of skin anatomy and how this applies practically when elevating skin flaps
To understand how to evaluate skin tension and select the most appropriate skin closure technique to close wounds
To understand and practically utilize skin flaps in the closure of wounds under moderate to high tension
Speaker
Professor Jackie Demetriou
BVetMed, CertSAS, DipECVS, FRCVS
Jackie Demetriou is one of the clinical partners at Granta Veterinary Specialists and an EBVS and RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Surgery and a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
She qualified from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, in 1996 and after a brief period in mixed practice embarked on an internship and residency in Small Animal Surgery at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh. Since then, she has held both academic positions and positions in specialist referral practice.
Currently, at the University of Nottingham she holds a part-time Chair in Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery.
She has also worked for twelve years in private specialist referral practice, where she led one of the largest soft tissue teams and ECVS residency programmes in the UK. She has been on the European College of Veterinary Surgeons Examination Committee and its Board of Regents and has taught small animal surgery extensively both nationally and internationally to students, veterinary surgeons in practice, interns and residents.
She has published two textbooks, multiple book chapters and over thirty peer-reviewed publications.
Who is it for?
Delegates should have basic surgical knowledge and good soft tissue handling skills to enroll on this course. Delegates should have had some level of experience in closing simple wounds and good ability in basic suturing techniques. However, this course has something for everyone and candidates can be inexperienced to experienced, and can work at their own pace and within their own comfort zone.
The Venue
The School of Veterinary Medicine and Science is based at the Sutton Bonington Campus of the University of Nottingham.
The Sutton Bonington Campus encompasses world-leading laboratories and specialist facilities for studying biosciences and veterinary medicine.
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vet/service-for-business/index.aspx
Number of CPD hours this event can be recorded as
8 hours
Registration and Booking
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