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Wound Closure for the Emergency Practitioner

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    • Basic Suturing
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      • Vertical Mattress Sutures
      • Horizontal Mattress Sutures
      • The Corner Stitch
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    • Advanced Suturing
      • Undermining
      • Layered Closure
      • Running Percutaneous Sutures
      • Running Subcuticular Suturing
      • “Dog Ear” Correction
      • The “Three-bite” dog ear correction
      • The Shorthand Vertical Mattress Suture
      • The Running Horizontal Mattress Suture
      • Locked Horizontal Mattress Suture
      • The Inverting Horizontal Mattress Suture
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      • Hypothenar Autografts for Dermal Avulsions
      • V-to-Y Conversion Flaps
    • Alternative Wound Closure
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      • Hair Apposition Technique
      • No Closure
    • Special Situations
      • Vascular Injuries, Part I: Basic Principles & Pitfalls
      • Vascular Injuries, Part II: Ligation Techniques
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    • Not Your Mama’s Horizontal Mattress
    • Preventable Lacerations: Epipen Auto-Injectors, Part I
    • Epinephrine Autoinjector Injuries: Part II
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    • Delayed Primary Closure, Part II
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    • Stock & Simplify Your Suture Cart, Part II
    • Extensor Tendon Injuries: PIP & Elson’s Test
    • Achilles Tendon Laceration
    • Subcuticular Suturing Pearls
    • Three things you didn’t know about gluing skin
    • Laceration Aftercare
    • Absorbable Sutures
    • Absorbable Sutures, Revisited
    • Wound Preparation
    • The “Show”
    • The Golden Period
  • Other topics
    • Soft Tissue
      • Felons & Paronychias
      • Incision & Loop Drainage
      • Loop Incision & Drainage, Revisited
      • Ring Tourniquet Syndrome
    • Blocks
      • Field Block of the Ear
      • Infraorbital Nerve Block
      • Mental Nerve Block
      • The Ophthalmic (V1) Nerve Block
      • Digital Blocks
    • Burns
      • Part I: Injury Grading
      • Part II: TBSA Assessment & Burn Apps
      • Part III: Initial management of the minor wound
      • Part IV: Dressings for Outpatient Wounds
      • Part V: Escharotomy
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      • Nerdnite SF
      • Basic Wound Management Lecture, Part I
      • Basic Wound Management Lecture, Part II
      • Basic Wound Management Lecture, Part III
      • Basic Wound Management Lecture: Part IV
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