Open AccessSimple Effective Ways to Care for Skin Wounds and Incisions
Author(s) -
Donald H. Lalonde,
Nadim Joukhadar,
Jeff Janis
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
plastic and reconstructive surgery. global open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.759
H-Index - 28
ISSN - 2169-7574
DOI - 10.1097/gox.0000000000002471
Subject(s) - simple (philosophy) , wound care , skin care , point (geometry) , medicine , surgery , nursing , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , epistemology
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.