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Acute Wounds

Clinics in Plastic Surgery, 2005
The most important factors in the management of acute wounds are the history and physical examination. The goals of wound care are fivefold: avoid further tissue damage, achieve wound closure as rapidly as possible, restore function to the injured tissue, facilitate the patient's expedient return to normal daily activities, and restore the patient's ...
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Management of Acute Wounds

Clinics in Plastic Surgery, 2007
The acute wound presents a spectrum of issues that prevent its ultimate closure. These issues include host factors, etiology, anatomic location, timing, and surgical techniques to achieve successful wound closure. Basic surgical principles need to be followed to obtain stable, long-term coverage, ultimately restoring form and function.
Charles K, Lee, Scott L, Hansen
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Acute wound healing: the biology of acute wound failure

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2003
Acute wound healing failure is an important source of morbidity and mortality for surgical patients. Many incisional hernias, gastrointestinal anastomotic leaks, and vascular pseudoaneurysms occur despite patient optimization and standardized surgical technique.
Derek A, Dubay, Michael G, Franz
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Acute wound closure

Nursing Standard, 2006
As an A&E nurse, I care for clients requiring acute wound closure and I enjoy the challenge it presents. This article reviewed the rationale of wound closure. It enabled me to revise the principles and to discover new techniques.
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ACUTE WOUND FAILURE

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1997
The causes and treatment of acute failure of the abdominal incision are reviewed, along with a summary of studies on fascial healing. Emphasis is placed on taking large bites of tissue during closure to prevent dehiscence. Patient-related risk factors are viewed as less important in the causation of wound failure.
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Acute Wound Pain

Advances in Skin & Wound Care, 2009
To provide the wound care practitioner with an overview of research and knowledge about the causes, mechanisms, contributing factors, and management of acute wound pain.This continuing education activity is intended for physicians and nurses with an interest in skin and wound care.After reading this article and taking this test, the reader should be ...
Carmen Mabel, Arroyo-Novoa   +5 more
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Techniques for acute wound closure

Nursing Standard, 2006
This article provides an overview of the assessment and management of the common types of acute wound that frequently present to accident and emergency departments, minor injury units and walk-in centres, and which require closure.
Tanya, Reynolds, Elaine, Cole
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Pathophysiology of acute wound healing

Clinics in Dermatology, 2007
Wound healing is a complex process that can be divided into at least 3 continuous and overlapping processes: an inflammatory reaction, a proliferative process leading to tissue restoration, and, eventually, tissue remodeling. Wound healing processes are strictly regulated by multiple growth factors and cytokines released at the wound site. Although the
Jie, Li, Juan, Chen, Robert, Kirsner
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Acute surgical wound care 2: the wound healing process

British Journal of Nursing, 1998
The first article in this series on acute surgical wound care traced the history of surgical wound care from primitive dressings and techniques of closure used in the past to the present-day approaches. It also outlined the classification of acute surgical wounds (Vol 7(18): 11016).
P, Moore, L, Foster
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