Sutures

A nice thing about being a medic in the army is that we often get to do things that we wouldn't in the civilian world. As civilians, our scope of practice is dictated by laws that limit what we, as EMTs or paramedics, can do. In the army, the supervising doctor determines a medic's scope of practice. If he is willing to sign-off on a procedure, then we may procede with it. For example, I had the opportunity to perform some suturing for my first time recently. Posted below are some before and after pictures. They're not perfect, but it was my first time after all.