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JJ 22 Laceration Repair – Glue vs Strips vs Staples vs Sutures

Emergency Medicine Cases

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How Close Should You Space Your Stitches?

In almost every trial when one of these options was compared to the quote, standard care, that standard care was sutures. So if you do choose to use sutures, I think you're trying to get enough so that the wound is coming nicely together without a significant amount of tension. But again, that's another one of those complicating factors that's not discussed in any of these topics. The lidocaine will help with the pain control of that slight burning from the glue, but more importantly that epinephrine is going to control the bleeding at those one-by-one wounds. You really need for good glue closure across those wounds.

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