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Posted on: Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:00 PM
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Subject: Suturing
| IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO, DON'T CLOSE A WOUND. Closing a wound by just sewing the skin together is a very bad idea if you don't know what you're doing. The skills involved are not terribly complex - Physician Assistant / Nurse Practitioner / Special Forces Medic level skills; but require knowledge of anatomy that most people (including paramedic/EMT skilled people) lack. There are several problems with closing a wound wrong. If the wound isn't clean and bleeding controlled, all you do is create a pocket for infection. How do you treat an infection like that? With more surgery, fixing it the |
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