Simple Effective Ways to Care for Skin Wounds and Incisions

Summary. Plastic surgeons are medicine’s wound experts. Many of the world’s poor cannot afford expensive wound management programs. All humans suffer open and closed wounds at some point in their life and must look after them. The purpose of this paper is to provide basic information to the public i...

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Main Authors: Don Lalonde, MD, Nadim Joukhadar, MD, Jeff Janis, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2019-10-01
Series:Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/10.1097/GOX.0000000000002471
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spelling doaj-b312cc63035440649a6eef74ced2bc8c2021-05-25T02:15:21ZengWolters KluwerPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open2169-75742019-10-01710e247110.1097/GOX.0000000000002471201910000-00024Simple Effective Ways to Care for Skin Wounds and IncisionsDon Lalonde, MD0Nadim Joukhadar, MD1Jeff Janis, MD2From the * Dalhousie University, Saint John, NB, Canada† Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada‡ Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.Summary. Plastic surgeons are medicine’s wound experts. Many of the world’s poor cannot afford expensive wound management programs. All humans suffer open and closed wounds at some point in their life and must look after them. The purpose of this paper is to provide basic information to the public in very simple terms on how to safely and inexpensively manage wounds. This paper is directed to all nonmedical people, medical students, and other doctors who may not be content experts in this field.http://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/10.1097/GOX.0000000000002471
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description Summary. Plastic surgeons are medicine’s wound experts. Many of the world’s poor cannot afford expensive wound management programs. All humans suffer open and closed wounds at some point in their life and must look after them. The purpose of this paper is to provide basic information to the public in very simple terms on how to safely and inexpensively manage wounds. This paper is directed to all nonmedical people, medical students, and other doctors who may not be content experts in this field.
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