Pain Management and Wound Care

Wound Management and Postoperative Care

The ultimate goal of wound management in periodontal surgery is a tension-free primary wound closure which reduces postoperative problems, healing time, and the risk of bacterial contamination of the wound area to a minimum. Modern minimally invasive, microsurgical concepts using multilayered suturing approaches with thin monofilament suture materials facilitate primary wound closure and increa...

Chronic wound pain and palliative cancer care.

Fluid management in wound care

Wounds come in many shapes and sizes often requiring washout and exploration. The limb is prepared and draped in the desired fashion. A large sterile x-ray C-arm cover is placed under the limb and secured proximally with a towel clip. A suction tube is placed in the lowest part. This tube can be cut and dropped into the bag when washout is completed and the bag removed, allowing further procedu...

Wound Care Approach to Complex Wound Management and Adjunct Therapy

The ageing of our population and rise in chronic diseases has resulted in the complex profile of the patients in the community. Complex wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers, infected pressure ulcers and other complications of non-healing wounds are common encounters in the primary health settings. The challenges of these complex wounds lie in its multi-factorial nature of the person, the wound a...

Medical management of chronic wound pain

R Gary Sibbald is Professor, Medicine and Public Health Science; Director of Continuing Education, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Director of Dermatology, Daycare and Wound Healing Clinic, Sunnybrook and Women’s Health Sciences Centre; Toronto Wound Healing Centres, Toronto, Ontario; and Chairman (Toronto Meeting 2008) of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies. Adam Katchky ...