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traumatic wound
Complications:
- infection risk depends more on site than time of suturing after injury [1]
Management:
- clean wound & disinfect prior to suturing
- wounds of the head & upper extremities may be sutured after 6 hours [1]
- effect of hyperbaric oxygen on wound healing is uncertain [2]
Notes:
- the dogma that traumatic wounds should not be sutured after 6 h is based on an animal experiment by PL Friedrich in 1898
Related
culture of wound
wound care
wound dressing
Useful
lesion
trauma
Specific
gunshot wound
open wound of head/neck/trunk
General
wound
References
- van den Baar MTM et al.
Is time to closure a factor in the occurrence of infection
in traumatic wounds? A prospective cohort study in a Dutch
level 1 trauma centre.
Emerg Med J 2010 Jul; 27:540.
PMID: 20584955
- Eskes A, Ubbink DT, Lubbers M, Lucas C, Vermeulen H.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for treating acute surgical and
traumatic wounds.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Oct 6;(10):CD008059
PMID: 20927771