Experience with the use of methods of improving the healing of surgical wounds in children
Bushmelev, V.A.
Klinicheskaia Khirurgiia 6: 51-52
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 2770149 Document Number: 331517
To improve healing of the operative wounds in children, a complex of measures is suggested, which stipulates the reduction of patient's stay in the hospital before the operation, the use of transverse skin incision, atraumaticity of the operation, meticulous layer-by-layer suturing of the skin wound, free of dressings management of the operative wounds, early removal of skin sutures. As a result, the duration of hospitalization reduced, bed turnover increased, a high cost effectiveness was achieved.