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Long Term Deep Wound Care
by Robert N. Oglesby DVM
Introduction
Introduction
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Why Leave a Wound Open
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Components of Wound Healing
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The First Week
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The First Month
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Proud Flesh
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The Final Stages
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Infection
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Pressure or Decubital Sores and Ulcers
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More Info
In
First Aid for Wounds
we talk about the initial assessment of a wound and first aid treatment so as to maximize the healing process. In this article principles and techniques of long term care of deep wounds are discussed including:
- Why leave wounds open
- How wounds heal
- Daily care techniques and products
- Wound healing time line
- Excessive granulation tissue (proud flesh)
- Infection prevention, assessment, and treatment
- Decubital (pressure) sores
~Word Count: 3584 words (The average magazine page contains about 600 words);
~Last Updated: September 08, 2009;
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 | Wound healing and platelet-rich plasma | 1 | 3 | Sep 8, 09 |
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| Duration between time of injury and stitching? | 1 | 2 | Jul 30, 09 |
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| Horse lovers united | 1 | 15 | Mar 31, 09 |
| Horrible wound on leg VERY GRAFIC | 1 | 114 | May 22, 09 |
| Healing time for full skin wound | 1 | 2 | Dec 24, 08 |
| Hock Wound | 1 | 8 | Jan 12, 09 |
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| Bleach on wire cut? | 1 | 6 | Jun 2, 08 |
| Healing shoulder and foot wounds | 1 | 5 | Mar 24, 08 |
| Research Summary: hyperbaric oxygen treatment effect on skin grafts | 1 | 1 | Feb 6, 08 |
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| Hock wound | 1 | 1 | Nov 9, 07 |
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| Final stages of wound | 1 | 4 | Mar 13, 07 |
| Severe puncture would in chest of yearling | 1 | 69 | May 16, 07 |
| Possible sequestrum after a kick | 1 | 6 | Jan 3, 07 |
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| Badly cut foal | 1 | 91 | Oct 3, 06 |
| Virtues of hosing | 1 | 49 | Apr 11, 07 |
| Abscess care | 1 | 1 | Mar 11, 06 |
| Horse - Car Accident | 1 | 32 | Dec 22, 06 |
| Possible blunt trauma to tissue above knee... | 1 | 22 | Nov 11, 05 |
| Wound reopening/should I do something? | 1 | 3 | Aug 4, 05 |
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| Preparation H to Stop Itching In Skin Wound | 1 | 4 | Apr 8, 05 |
| Post Treatment of Sutured Nose/Muzzel area | 1 | 3 | Mar 31, 05 |
| Nolvalsan/Clorhex | 1 | 8 | Oct 10, 05 |
| 3rd week - no contraction - should I trim? | 1 | 2 | Oct 14, 04 |
| Effect of Water on Wound Healing | 1 | 4 | Sep 21, 04 |
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| Stalling 2yo w/stitches in shoulder | 1 | 5 | May 24, 04 |
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| Cut tendon sheath. Will it heal with the constant drip from the cut... | 1 | 6 | Sep 2, 02 |
| Anterior hock laceration | 1 | 26 | Aug 17, 02 |
| Yearling Silly Filly "Folly" with Fence | 1 | 2 | Jun 16, 02 |
| Shoulder injury with skin loss | 1 | 2 | Mar 30, 02 |
| Deep wound complicated by punctured tendon sheath | 1 | 24 | Jan 4, 02 |
| Healing a stitched wound with a laser | 1 | 11 | Nov 13, 01 |
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