Emergency management of difficult wounds: part II

Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2007 Feb;25(1):123-34. doi: 10.1016/j.emc.2007.01.004.

Abstract

Difficult wounds constitute a significant amount of the morbidity and mortality emergency physicians face on a daily basis. There are specific traumatic and atraumatic wounds that are difficult to manage and have a high risk of complications. Emergency physicians must be able to identify these high-risk wounds and patients and take steps to mitigate further morbidity and mortality.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Debridement
  • Emergency Service, Hospital*
  • Fasciitis, Necrotizing* / mortality
  • Fasciitis, Necrotizing* / physiopathology
  • Fasciitis, Necrotizing* / therapy
  • Humans
  • Hyperbaric Oxygenation
  • Immunoglobulins, Intravenous / therapeutic use*
  • Methicillin Resistance
  • Wound Infection* / diagnosis
  • Wound Infection* / drug therapy
  • Wound Infection* / physiopathology

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Immunoglobulins, Intravenous