Before moving on to wound care, I would like to introduce you to wounds.
What is a wound: it is the breakdown of the skin barrier that protects our body from outer hurt. It injures the body and interrupts continuous protection in daily life, or say damages the connection of all parts of tissue, including skin, mucous, and internal organs.
How does a wound happen: it’s caused by accidents, falls, hits, burns, and weapons. It could be a minor to serious injury, it can be outdoor or indoor, and it can also happen during surgery and suturing. Every year, a million people injure themselves in the USA. For example, someone is driving a car but suddenly he has an accident and breaks his skin tissues, or during an operation, cuts tissue and bleeds.
Wound types and explain:
Contusion: if there is an insult to a tissue, then the capillaries can be disrupted and swell, and red blood cells will leak out of the capillaries into the tissues.
Abrasion: means a scrape or a gaze its sparely superficial loss of tissue
Avulsion: An injury is one with tissue loss and it’s like gouging, and you lose like chunk of tissue
Laceration: where the skin splits apart as a result of blunt trauma
Incise wound: if something is cut with a knife or anything sharp
Puncture: where there is fine penetration of the tissue
Strains: caused by straining forces in the muscle fascia
Sprains: if sprains fibers are damaged
Wound healing: repair of damaged tissue or replacement of broken skin tissue by new tissue produced. Easy word, just healing of injured tissue. The uninjured skin, the epidermis, and the dermis make new tissue against the outer environment.
Wound care : means taking care of the wound for healing as soon as possible. All kinds of management, like diagnosis, dressing changes, assessment, and cleaning, involve wound care.
There are five main types of wound management:
Properly diagnose and fix the area
nicely cleaning
Change the dressing on time
Appropriate dressing choice
proper medicine prescribe
Why wound care is so important: if proper care is not taken to care for the wound and it’s open, then there are many viruses, bacteria, fungi, and foreign can contact the injured parts, which may cause a big infection, necrosis, and even loss of patient organs, sometimes death could happen. Proper care of wounds helps heal and protect against infection. Enhance quality of life.
What will happen if left untreated: if the wound treats left it could spread into other parts of the body, can get involved in blood capillaries, and can be carried into the blood circulation and throughout the body. So if there is any big, medium, or small wound, everybody should take care of it immediately.
Basic steps of taking care of a wound: clean your hands with soap and clean water.
Dry it properly, take out all the ornaments and check if there is any blood, then with iodine sterilization, your wound area rapidly 3 times until 10-15cm, then cover it with a waterproof bandage.
Summary: Small wounds can be treated at home by yourself, but deep and large wounds require the help of a doctor. At the same time, PROMED provides you with a full set of wound care products.For more information and details please visit our website (www.llkmedical.com) and email us at info@llkmedical.com