The goals for wound repair of traumatic lacerations are to attain hemostasis of the wound, improve appearance, and decrease infection.

and an indication for wound closure with sutures, were considered for inclusion. Exclusion criteria were as follows: wounds more than eight hours old (12 hours for the face), bite wounds, deep wounds ...

interrupted sutures, and the matching site was allowed to heal by second intention. Hemostasis of the second-intention healing site was achieved with gel foam. Wound care consisted of Tegaderm ...

Campers immersed themselves in activities including wound suture, incision and drainage workshops, x-ray images, and even extracting DNA.

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12, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; G.Jaissle{at}med.uni-tuebingen.de The presented Z-suture is a simple, rapid and safe knotless technique that facilitates transscleral suture fixation of various ...

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