On Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. in Gilman 132, join the Premedical Honor Society as we host representatives from the U.S. Army for a suturing lab. Practice your suturing skills on real animal specimens!

‌Absorbable sutures, also known as dissolvable stitches, are sutures that can naturally dissolve and be absorbed by the body as a wound heals. Not all wounds are sealed with absorbable sutures.

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Sutures are filaments, fibers or thread-like materials used to hold a wound or tissue together. In surgical language, sutures are used for apposition – that is, the positioning (of tissue) side by ...

"A-HEC of a Summer" high school students learn to sew sutures from LSU Family Medicine Residency program residents at Rapides Regional Medical Center.