Evaluation and Management of Traumatic Lacerations

摘要: Each year in the United States, more than 12 million traumatic wounds are treated emergency departments.1 When nonemergency or elective incisions included, approximately 90 skin-suturing procedures performed each year.2 Traumatic lacerations occur most often young men, typically on face, scalp, and hands.3 More 50 percent of all caused by blunt injury that produces shear forces, others sharp objects, such as metal, glass, wood.3,4 Only a minority mammalian nonmammalian bites.3 The ultimate goals wound management to avoid infection . . .