Case Study On Wound Healing

1. Introduction
1.1. Background Wound occurs when the integrity of any tissue is compromised (e.g. skin breaks, muscle tears, burns, or bonefracturs). A wound may be caused by an act, such as a gunshot, fall, or surgical procedure; by an infectious disease; orby an underlying condition (1).
The wound-healing process consists of four highly integrated and overlapping phases: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and tissue remodeling or maturation (2). These phases and their biophysiological functions must occur in the proper order, at a specific time, and continue for a specific duration at an optimal intensity. There are many factors that can affect wound healing which interfere with one or more phases in this process, thus causing improper or impaired tissue repair (3).
Surgical incision leads sterile tissues to come into contact with the septic environment and causes contamination. Wound healing is delayed when

SSI continues to remain a major problem in hospitals, contributing significantly to increased rate of morbidity, mortality and cost of care (18).
In developing countries like Ethiopia postoperative wound healing still remains a problem to surgical patients and a challenge to clinicians despite that much effort on wound care management has been provided. Ethiopia still suffers from a lack of qualified health workers. Increased burden of diseases affects the quality and supply of effective health services, which has seen postoperative patients get inadequate wound treatment and wound (dressing) care management in surgical wards, resulting to wound healing delay and complications