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

Emergency Medicine Cases

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The Uncertainty of Choosing an Absorbable Suture

In selected patients it doesn't seem to matter if we choose staples or glue. Despite that uncertainty personally I feel very comfortable using absorbable sutures mostly all the time. And despite having very broad inclusion criteria they only found 7 RCTs and these RCTs are tiny from 44 to 166 patients and none of them were fully blinded.

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