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Wounds often cause pain, and untreated may may lead to decreased adherence with wound care. For this reason, it is important to assess patients for the presence of pain and ask what the patient is doing to relieve pain. If pain is inadequately treated, the wound care clinician should intervene to relieve pain to the…

Evidence-based Wound Management As clinicians, we know that patients do not always act in their own best interest. They may cling to old remedies based on tradition or folklore, rather than researching current and accepted treatments. An example of this is applying butter to burn wounds. As practitioners we know that this is not an…

In addition to local factors that can influence wound healing, such as circulation, sensation and mechanical stress, there are a number of systemic factors that can also play a role. Aging– aging causes many changes that adversely affect the skin and its ability to heal and regenerate itself. In terms of ability to heal, as we…

There are three types of wound closure: primary, secondary and delayed primary closure. Let’s look at each of them in a little more detail. Primary wound closure Primary closure (sometimes referred to as healing by primary intention) is the fastest type of wound closure. A good example of primary closure is a paper cut. You…

Wound healing proceeds in a relatively organized fashion, following three processes that overlap- inflammation, proliferation and maturation/remodeling (some sources will describe this process as four phases breaking the inflammation process into hemostasis and inflammation). How much do you remember about the phases of wound healing?  First, let’s take a look at the inflammatory phase, which…