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Wound management techniques

Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE Skills Laboratory: Wound repair techniques—Strip skin grafts January 8, 2013 By: Steven F. Swaim, DVM, MS A step-by-step guide to this simple way to repair wounds in which local tissue is not available for closure.

Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE Skills Laboratory: Reconstructive surgery techniques, Part 6: Rotation skin flaps May 1, 2010 By: Steven F. Swaim, DVM, MS Rotation skin flaps are circle-shaped flaps that are useful in closing triangular skin defects in which skin for closure is only available on one side of the defect.

Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE Reconstructive surgery techniques, Part 5: Walking sutures April 1, 2010 By: Steven F. Swaim, DVM, MS Walking sutures are tension-type sutures that can be used to close large skin defects in areas where sufficient skin surrounds the wound that can be moved or stretched to close the wound.

Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE Skills Laboratory: Reconstructive surgery techniques, Part 4: Full-thickness mesh skin grafts December 1, 2009 By: Steven F. Swaim, DVM, MS A full-thickness mesh graft is a sheet of skin that includes only the epidermis and the entire dermis and is fenestrated to allow for expansion and drainage.

Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE Skills Laboratory: Reconstructive surgery techniques, Part 3: Multiple punctate relaxing incisions October 1, 2009 By: Steven F. Swaim, DVM, MS Multiple punctate relaxing incisions are small parallel, staggered incisions made unilaterally or bilaterally (usually bilaterally) in skin adjacent to a wound to relieve the tension associated with wound closure.

Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE Skills Laboratory: Reconstructive surgery techniques, Part 2: Adjustable horizontal mattress suture August 1, 2009 By: Steven F. Swaim, DVM, MS The adjustable horizontal mattress suture is indicated primarily for limb wounds that are either relatively new or are in the wound contraction phase and in which the edges cannot initially be apposed.

Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE Skills Laboratory: Reconstructive surgery techniques, Part 1: Presutures for skin stretching May 29, 2009 By: Steven F. Swaim, DVM, MS Presutures are Lembert sutures placed in healthy skin on either side of a lesion. Placed several hours before the lesion is debrided or excised, these sutures stretch the skin around the lesion.

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