How To Care for Wounds and Lacerations

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• How To Cleanse, Irrigate, Debride, and Dress Wounds
  • Indications
  • Contraindications
  • Complications
  • Equipment
  • Additional Considerations
  • Positioning
  • Step-by-Step Description of Procedure
    • Preliminary tasks
    • Local infiltration anesthesia
    • Wound cleansing
    • Wound exploration
    • Wound debridement
    • Wound dressing*
  • Aftercare
  • Warnings and Common Errors

• How To Repair a Laceration With Simple Interrupted Sutures
  • Indications
  • Contraindications
  • Complications
  • Equipment
  • Additional Considerations
  • Positioning
  • Step-by-Step Description of Procedure
    • Handling the instruments
    • Inserting the sutures
    • The instrument tie
  • Aftercare
  • Warnings and Common Errors

• How To Do Plastic Surgical Repair With Buried Deep Dermal Sutures
  • Indications
  • Contraindications
  • Complications
  • Equipment
  • Additional Considerations
  • Relevant Anatomy
  • Positioning
  • Step-by-Step Description of Procedure
  • Aftercare
  • Warnings and Common Errors
  • Tips and Tricks

• How To Repair a Laceration With Glue
  • Indications
  • Contraindications
  • Complications
  • Equipment
  • Additional Considerations
  • Relevant Anatomy
  • Positioning
  • Step-by-Step Description of Procedure
  • Aftercare
  • Warnings and Common Errors
  • Tips and Tricks

• How To Repair a Laceration With Horizontal Mattress Sutures
  • Indications
  • Contraindications
  • Complications
  • Equipment
  • Additional Considerations
  • Positioning
  • Step-by-Step Description of Procedure
    • Horizontal mattress suture
    • Half-buried horizontal mattress suture
  • Aftercare
  • Warnings and Common Errors
  • Tips and Tricks

• How To Repair a Laceration With Stapling
  • Indications
  • Contraindications
  • Complications
  • Equipment
  • Additional Considerations
  • Positioning
  • Step-by-Step Description of Procedure
  • Aftercare
  • Warnings and Common Errors
  • Tips and Tricks

• How To Repair a Laceration With a Subcuticular Running Suture
  • Indications
  • Contraindications
  • Complications
  • Equipment
  • Additional Considerations
  • Relevant Anatomy
  • Positioning
  • Step-by-Step Description of Procedure
    • For closures that will require suture removal
    • For closures that will not require suture removal
  • Aftercare
  • Tips and Tricks

• How To Repair a Laceration With Vertical Mattress Sutures
  • Indications
  • Contraindications
  • Complications
  • Equipment
  • Positioning
  • Step-by-Step Description of Procedure
    • Vertical mattress suture
  • Aftercare
  • Warnings and Common Errors
  • Tips and Tricks