Tom Wade MD

The following videos are from Dr. Brian Lin’s excellent Closing The Gap website:

Welcome to Closing the Gap: an educational site dedicated to improving expertise of both novice and experienced health care practitioners dealing with acute wound care.

This blog features how-to videos on suturing techniques commonly used for acute traumatic lacerations treated in an emergency room, urgent care, or family practice office environment.

• Basic Suturing Techniques
  • Simple Interrupted Sutures
  • Vertical Mattress Sutures
  • Deep Dermal Sutures
  • Horizontal Mattress Sutures
  • Half-buried Horizontal Mattress Suture (Corner Stitch)
• Advanced Suturing Techniques
  • Undermining
  • Running Percutaneous Sutures
  • Running Subcuticular sutures
  • Dog Ear Correction
  • Lacerations Around the Eye
  • Putting the Pieces Back Together: Advanced Wound Closure in the ED