How to Remove Sutures and Apply Steristrips (Nursing Skills)

Nurses often care for wounds that will require follow up procedures. Suture application often requires that 7 to 10 days post-treatment, the patient returns to have their sutures removed.

If a wound is not deep, steristrips may be applied in place of sutures or after the sutures have been removed to allow for further healing. These are two skills nurses should be familiar with.

Review the process for assessing and removing interrupted sutures. From physician orders to cleaning an prepping to removal and steri strip application. I will go over the supplies you need and the ones you may need in the event the wound has some exudate

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[TessHere]

Hi. after removing every other stitch, and i see that the wound is pulling apart a little (not pull apart deep, but does open a bit). Do I inform the doctor ? How can I evaluate (or what do I look for) whether it is still ok to continue removal as the strips will pull them together for the rest of the healing process. Thanks

[thetung]

Thank you for the education. I was going to just use needlnose pliers for the removal process😮. Lol

[edwardsullivan]

The suture removal is painful like a needle... 95% psychological. I used to black out, but a lot of it was due to hypoglycemia, much more prone. Getting therapeutic phlebotomies every other week cured my psychosomatic symptoms, and hardly any pain from a large gauge needle, though I still dread it, always feels weird while the blood fills 50 100cc viles that go in the trash. Cure through exposure.

[Jeri-]

Should a deep wound { a result of surgery } two weeks old still be bleeding?

[daanitzaa]

After the suture removal why do you only clean around the sides?

[chelsisallee]

Are steri strips necessary after dissolvable sutures are removed? Will it scar more without? I was told since the wound closed after scab fell off the steri strips aren't really necessary. I want to minimize scarring as much as possible though! Any advice?

[alejandraespino]

Can I remove the steri stripe if the wound is already open

[silentafterthought]

Is it OK if the strip comes off 3 days after it was put on or comes loose I got some strips on and one or two is coming lose

[meilih]

my suture was removed and than I applied steri strip but the upper and lower part of wound is not connected well it open up. The dissolvable stitches came out of the lower part. It was hanging out than i touch it bleed, so I just cut it a bit to shorten it. I am using antibiotic ointment mupirocin. I put steri strip again. But it doesn't stay long since my skin is oily it keeps getting off. Is it normal that the stitch went out? What do I do? if it heals that way will it dissapear, how can it close if there is hanging suture, it might get infection like what happen to my other surgery when there was this tiny hole that was open, like a tiny poke of needle was open, than it became infected and i took another antibiotic and it burst out. I am scared it's on my nose hu hu, this is not my body this is on my face my nose. I have to go back to doctor even if it's far away. It was done in government hospital. it's mole removal, I can't afford the laser so i took this nasty invasive painful scary surgery. I feel like my nose is going to explode. I have tomato flat ugly nose and now I have additional long scar on my nose, my entire face is so ugly and full of scars already. I look like frankenstein the female version. 😥

[hassanmalik]

After how many days we can remove steri strips from a cut

[lalalooo]

What happens if the wound was cleaned but not around the edges and the steri strips was closed and not space? What is your advice?

[catholiccat]

A warm blanket for pain relief 🙄🙄🙄… yeah okay .. that’s where I stop listening

[Versatech]

No medical knowledge whatsoever here. Arent sutures dissolvable?