RT Book, Section A1 Kantor, Jonathan SR Print(0) ID 1190157884 T1 Introduction T2 Atlas of Suturing Techniques: Approaches to Surgical Wound, Laceration, and Cosmetic Repair, 2e YR 2022 FD 2022 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781264264391 LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190157884 RD 2024/03/28 AB All desirable scars are alike; all undesirable scars are undesirable in different ways. For millennia, surgical and traumatic wounds have been closed with sutures and similar materials, yet it was only with the introduction of local anesthesia 130 years ago that surgeons were able to move from focusing on the most rapid suture placement technique to the most effective. From William Halsted’s promotion of the buried suture technique in the late nineteenth century to contemporary articles on the subtleties of suture placement and tissue handling, a paradigm shift has taken place, with an increasing appreciation that not only are there multiple available approaches for any single suture placement, but that this choice may impact outcomes.