Introduction
A facial laceration is a cut on the face. The injuries can be painful and can cause bleeding. Lacerations usually heal quickly, but they need special care to reduce scarring.
What are the causes?
What are the signs or symptoms?
How is this diagnosed?
This condition is diagnosed by:
Medical history. Your health care provider will ask for details about how the injury occurred.
Physical exam. Your health care provider will examine the wound to determine how deep the cut is.
How is this treated?
Treatment for this condition depends on the severity of the cut, including the risk of infection and how deep the wound is.
The wound will be cleaned to prevent infection.
Your health care provider will decide whether to close the wound. Whether
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If needed, you may also be given a tetanus shot.
Follow these instructions at home:
Take over-the-counter and prescription medicines only as told by your health care provider.
Follow your health care provider’s instructions for wound care. These instructions will vary depending on the technique used for closing the wound.
For sutures:
Keep the wound clean and dry.
If you were given a bandage (dressing), you should change it at least once a day. Also change the dressing if it becomes wet or dirty, or as directed by your health care provider.
Wash the wound with soap and water 2 times a day. Rinse the wound off with water to remove all soap. Pat the wound dry with a clean towel.
After cleaning, apply a thin layer of the antibiotic ointment recommended by your health care provider. This will help prevent infection and keep the dressing from sticking.
You may shower as usual after the first 24 hours. Do not soak the wound in water until the sutures are removed.
Get your sutures removed as directed by your health care provider. With facial lacerations, sutures should be taken out after 4–5 days to avoid stitch marks.
Wait a few days after your sutures are removed before applying any makeup.
For skin adhesive
Note and answer to yourself, the factor that are involved at the incident, the mechanisms and circumstances on the injury, as well as the extent and type of injury. Assessing the situation identify what happened, a number of people involved, as their age, there is a child and or elderly.
A piercing could seem healed before the treatment system is entire. That is since tissue heals from the outside in, and even though it feels fine, the inner remains fragile. Be sufferer, and preserve cleansing for the period of the entire therapy interval.
Let the turtle dry itself on a warm towel for a good number of hours before you return it to clean, bacteria-fee, healthy water. This process has to be repeated daily for 7 days or until the wounds heal.
After the injury has occurred, the injured should see the family doctor or possibly a specialist to see if something is torn. The doctor will do some range of motion testing. Theses test are the Lachman, Dynamic extension and the pivot jerk.
The best way to treat a severe burn is for it to be cleaned and covered in a critical amount of time. Many types of coverings can be used to get the job done. Currently, surgeons agree that the patients own skin is the best form of covering the burn wound. By taking skin from another body part, the burn wound can be covered with the transplanted skin. This process is called auto grafting. Auto grafting can't be done for those patients who have burns covering the majority of their bodies. So, there has to be another way for covering their burns. An additional possibility is called an all graft, the process when the burn is covered with cadaver skin. Cadaver skin is sometimes in short supply so animal skin might be used in place of it. The use of animal skin or Xenografting is sometimes avoided because the patient's immune system could reject the skin and have to be removed.
Check the skin around the cast every day. You may put lotion on any red or sore areas.
Maintenance of an appropriate healing environment is also essential throughout the management of diabetic foot ulcers. The choice of dressing is dependent on many factors including presence of infection, amount of exudate and the required frequency of wound bed inspection.
To prevent excessive blood loss, nasal packs are inserted inside the nose until bleeding is controlled. It might therefore be necessary to breathe through the mouth after the surgery.
Education of the patient will begin. Depending on the size of the abscess and how extensive the procedure was the patient may need a relative or friend to drive them back home. Not only would the patient need a ride back home, they may need to be watched for 24 hours. As part of pain management pain medication may be given to the patient to decrease pain. Antibiotics may be given to fight or prevent infection caused by the bacteria. The patient will also need to list all medications that they are taking so there will not be any contraindications with the medications that the patient is given. Advise the patient that more than one follow-up appointment will be necessary in order to properly treat the wound. Before the end of the appointment, the medical assistant should give the patient written instructions along with an emergency number and the number to the practice incase the patient has any questions or concerns. Advise the patient to return to the practice if they experience any fever, chills, or the abscess returns. If red streaks appear around the wound tell the patient to call the emergency department immediately. After the the procedure and patient education has been completed, make sure all the step of the procedure has been documented in the patient’s record and all follow-up procedures have been
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First Aid for bleeding begins by calming and reassureing the victim. Next lay the victim down to reduce the chance of fainting by increasing the blood flow to the brain. Elevate the bleeding area when possible. Clean and remove loose dirt away from the wound. If an object such as a knife, stick, or arrow becomes embedded in the body, do not remove it. Doing so may increase the amount of bleeding and cause more damage. Place gauze and bandages around the object and tape the object in place. Put pressure directly on an external wound with a sterile bandage, clean cloth, or even a piece of clothing. Direct pressure is best for external bleeding, except for an eye injury. Maintain pressure until the bleeding stops. Do not peek at the wound to see if the bleeding has stopped. If bleeding continues and soaks through the material being held on the wound, do not remove it. Simply place another cloth over the first one. Be sure to seek medical attention.
I have learned and will practice that is very critical to know what hand washing technique and disinfection must be used before, during and after performance of every procedures, whether routine or surgical with specific routine and steps. I learned that CDC guidelines are implemented to control infection in medical and dental settings to prevent cross-contamination and are to be followed at any
Our approach in managing wounds was far from being optimal in our own setting. After having read the article of Sibbald et al (1) and assisting to presentations during the first residential week-end, our approach at St. Mary 's Hospital Center 's Family Medicine Clinic must change. We were not classifying wounds as healable, maintenance or non-healable. We were always considering the wounds in our practice as healable despite considering the system 's restraints or the patients ' preferences. In the following lines, I will define and summarize the methods one should use in order to initial management of wounds and how to integrate it better to our site. The first goal we need to set is to determine its ability to heal. In order to ascertain if a wound is healable, maintenance or a non-healable wound.
The normal wound healing process mainly consists of four main stages being haemostasis, inflammation, proliferation or new tissue formation, and tissue remodeling or resolution. For a wound to heal well the above mentioned stages should occur in a sequential and orderly manner. Disturbances, abnormalities and delays in any of the above stages may lead to impaired healing or even chronic wounds. In adults, this process of normal healing takes place in the following steps (1)rapid haemostasis (2)appropriate inflammation (3)mesenchymal cell differentiation, proliferation, and migration to the wound site (4)suitable angiogenesis (5)prompt re-epithelialization and (6) proper synthesis, cross-linking, and alignment of collagen to provide strength to the healing tissue.
During and immediately after treatment you need to be very gentle in the way you treat your skin. Try not to rub, scratch, or scrub your skin. When you get out of the shower be sure to pat your skin dry with the towel instead of rubbing it. Wear clothes that are soft next to your skin to reduce irritation. Unless your doctor tells you to do so, avoid using ice packs on any treated areas of skin as they will only cause it to dry out more