ADVANCED SUTURE COURSE

NEWLY Expanded and Revised Starting at $225

+ 20.0 Contact Hours (AAPA, ANCC, AANP)
+ 10.0 Pharmacology Hours (ANCC, AANP)

We teach you the correct approaches both to closure and to the entire process leading up to closure.  We teach you how to:

• Begin with the end in mind – think cosmetic outcome, infection potential, likelihood for dehiscence
• Know when to ask – you’ll exit the course knowing when and why you should consult surgical or orthopedic services for certain wound presentations
• Slam dunk that closure – with 13 closure techniques and 3 anesthesia methods in your toolchest, plus medicolegal charting nuggets and too many tips-of-the-trade to count, your wound closure game will hit the next level

The Advanced Suture Course (15.0 Contact Hours, 2.0 Pharmacology Hours) is an online, asynchronous laceration and wound repair course with 15.0 total AAPA and ANCC contact hours, including 2.0 ANCC pharmacology hours (ANCC contact hours are accepted by the AANP).

It is entirely in an online, asynchronous format, and offers 20.0 total AAPA and ANCC contact hours, including 10.0 ANCC pharmacology hours.  ANCC contact hours are accepted by the AANP.  Course participants receive training in 13 closure methods through 34 modules and 10 case studies, covering 3 anesthesia methods as well as the A.C.E. F.A.S.T. Closure Method™. The course is available by itself, or bundled with some extras.  All course bundles include downloadable MP3 and MP4 course audio and video, as well as a digital course workbook.

Regardless of your level of experience with wound closure and care, Advanced Suture Course will enhance your skill set in the areas of suturing, stapling, gluing, and managing simple to complex lacerations.  You will learn when to seek surgical consultation, how to deal with animal bites, when not to close a wound, and much more.

Online access makes learning and earning much easier.  Advanced Suture Course is a fully online, asynchronous suture training course.  This puts you in the driver’s seat for deciding when and where to enrich your practice.  It also puts the captain’s hat squarely on your brow for deciding at what pace you earn CME credit.

High-definition video makes learning very real-to-life.  Using state-of-the-art, high-definition video technology, Advanced Suture Course brings you right to the heart of the wound and guides you through repairs every step of the way.  You will learn, with crystal clarity, how to repair lacerations using simple interrupted, interrupted cruciate, running-locking, vertical mattress, and many more techniques.  You will learn how to tie knots correctly.  You will learn essentially everything there is to know about wound repair.

Accredited CE.  Advanced Suture Course is approved for 20.0 contact hour(s) of continuing education by the American Academy of Physician Assistants, The American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the American Nurses Credentialing Association, including 10.0 pharmacology contact hours.

Learn from an experienced family and emergency nurse practitioner.  With years of experience as an emergency department provider, as well as collegiate level teaching experience, Patton is able to quickly explain, demonstrate, and prepare you to emulate simple and complex techniques, as well as fully enhance your current level of practice and understanding.  He’s also a real person and makes learning fun.

Not a bare-bones essentials course.  Advanced Suture Course will bring you to the front of your field in suture repair.  Advanced Suture Course is a head-to-toe suture training course and will fully enhance your practice of wound closure.

Your charting will never be the same.  Advanced Suture Course is full of high-yield MEDICOLEGAL NUGGETS and advises you on what to chart, and when to chart it.  Your clinical documentation will improve.  Your patient outcomes will improve.  And, your foundation for medicolegal defense will be enhanced.

Learn suturing through the A.C.E. F.A.S.T. Closure® method.  Developed by Patton Graham, NP-C, the A.C.E. F.A.S.T. Closure® method will help you ace your closures every time.  This method-approach to wound closure will surprise you at how easy it is to both remember and implement.

Topics

• When and When Not to Close
• The A.C.E. F.A.S.T. Closure® Method
• Proper Anesthesia Delivery
• Proper Wound Cleansing
• Proper Wound Examination
• Foreign Body Removal
• Antibiotic Appropriateness
• When to Seek Surgical Consultation
• Current Tetanus Guidelines
• Closure Basics Including Line and Needle Selection
• Proper Knot Tying
• Left-handed suturing
• Repair of Torso Lacerations
• Repair of Extremity Lacerations
• Repair of Head and Neck Lacerations
• Repair of Scalp Lacerations
• Repair of Eyelid Lacerations
• Repair of Ear Lacerations
• Repair of Lip Lacerations
• Repair of Nailbed Lacerations
• Repair of Flap Lacerations
• Repair of Buccal Lacerations
• Repair of Tongue Lacerations
• Repair of Joint Capsule Lacerations
• Nail Trephination
• Dog Ear Deformity Correction
• Undermining
• Multi-layer Suturing
• SPECIAL TOPIC: Treatment of Animal Bites
• SPECIAL TOPIC: Treatment of Open Fractures
• SPECIAL TOPIC: Pediatric Lacerations
• SPECIAL TOPIC: Lacerations in the Anticoagulated Patient
• SPECIAL TOPIC: Managing Poorly Healing Lacerations
• SPECIAL TOPIC: C-spine Management and Imaging Related to Traumatic Head and Neck Lacerations
• BONUS: Appropriate Follow-up Care
• BONUS: Medicolegal Tips and Nuggets

Closure Techniques
Steri-Strips
Skin Adhesive
Skin Stapling
Simple Interrupted
Simple Continuous
Horizontal Mattress
Vertical Mattress
Interrupted Cruciate
Corner Stitch
Running Locking
Dog Ear Deformity Correction
Multi-Layer Closure
Left-handed closure

Anesthesia Approaches
Local Infiltration
Digital Block
Field Block

ENP Contact Hours
This course provides 15.0 of 30 contact hours required by the AAENP under Option 1 for the ENP certification exam.

A.C.E. F.A.S.T. Closure Method
Learn to ace your closures every time through the A.C.E. F.A.S.T. Closure Method.  This method, developed by Advanced Suture Course creator Patton Graham, will improve your throughput times, bolster your medicolegal defensibility, enhance your charting, and fortify your patient outcomes.

Advanced Suture Course is approved for 20.0 contact hour(s) of continuing education by the American Academy of Physician Assistants, The American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the American Nurses Credentialing Association, including 10.0 pharmacology contact hours.