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Wound Closure for the Emergency Practitioner

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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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    • Absorbable Sutures, Revisited
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      • Loop Incision & Drainage, Revisited
      • Ring Tourniquet Syndrome
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      • Field Block of the Ear
      • Infraorbital Nerve Block
      • Mental Nerve Block
      • The Ophthalmic (V1) Nerve Block
      • Digital Blocks
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      • 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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      • Basic Wound Management Lecture: Part IV
      • Basic Wound Management Lecture, Part V
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Posted on September 30, 2017October 3, 2017 by bwlin720

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