1-Day Advanced Suturing CME Workshop (Oct 17, 2025)

1-Day Advanced Suturing CME Workshop 2025 is organized by Provider Practice Essentials (PPE), LLC and will be held on Oct 17, 2025 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Orlando at SeaWorld, Orlando, Florida, United States of America.

Description:
This 1-Day CME program is perfect for Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Residents, and Students.  Learn about suture and needle selection, advanced suturing techniques, special site repair, and a variety of other laceration repair topics.

Conference Contents and Schedule:
Introduction to Suturing

• Needle Types
• Suture Types
• How to select the correct suture
• Basic Laceration repair approaches
• How to load a needle driver
• Basic knot tying

Local Anesthesia and Regional Blocking

• Approaches to local wound anesthesia
• Nerve blocks of the head, face, mouth, hand, foot, and extremities
• Pharmacology of anesthetic agents

Hands-On Suture and Procedure Training

• All HANDS-ON
• Interrupted Sutures
• Running Sutures
• Vertical and Horizontal Mattress Sutures
• Buried knot and multi-layer closure
• Staples
• Abscess Incision and Drainage
• Cyst Removal
• Nail Trephination

Eyelid, Periorbital, and Facial Lacerations

• All HANDS-ON
• Learn common approaches
• Identification of dangerous lacerations
• Closure of eyelid, puncta, and surrounding eye structures

Finger, Nail, and Nail bed Lacerations

• All HANDS-ON
• Fingernail stabilization and nail removal
• Nail Bed Injuries
• Open tuft fracture repair and flap management

Lips, Tongue, and Chin Lacerations

• All HANDS-ON
• Suture Selection and preparation
• Lip closure
• Tongue Laceration Management

Nose and Philtrum Lacerations 

• All HANDS-ON
• Nares repair
• Septal Hematoma Drainage
• Philtrum repair

Ear Lacerations

• All HANDS-ON
• Lobule repair
• Tragus, helix and antihelix repair
• Cartilage repair
• Retroauricular repair

Free Laceration Repair

• All HANDS-ON
• Practice your own complicated lacerations with our expert instructors
• Program Wrap up