TY - JOUR
T1 - Management of traumatic wounds in the Emergency Department
T2 - Position paper from the Academy of Emergency Medicine and Care (AcEMC) and the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES)
AU - Prevaldi, Carolina
AU - Paolillo, Ciro
AU - Locatelli, Carlo
AU - Ricci, Giorgio
AU - Catena, Fausto
AU - Ansaloni, Luca
AU - Cervellin, Gianfranco
PY - 2016/6/18
Y1 - 2016/6/18
N2 - Traumatic wounds are one of the most common problems leading people to the Emergency Department (ED), accounting for approximately 5,4 % of all the visits, and up to 24 % of all the medical lawsuits. In order to provide a standardized method for wound management in the ED, we have organized a workshop, involving several Italian and European experts. Later, all the discussed statements have been submitted for external validation to a multidisciplinary expert team, based on the so called Delphi method. Eight main statements have been established, each of them comprising different issues, covering the fields of wound classification, infectious risk stratification, tetanus and rabies prophylaxis, wound cleansing, pain management, and suture. Here we present the results of this work, shared by the Academy of Emergency Medicine and Care (AcEMC), and the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES).
AB - Traumatic wounds are one of the most common problems leading people to the Emergency Department (ED), accounting for approximately 5,4 % of all the visits, and up to 24 % of all the medical lawsuits. In order to provide a standardized method for wound management in the ED, we have organized a workshop, involving several Italian and European experts. Later, all the discussed statements have been submitted for external validation to a multidisciplinary expert team, based on the so called Delphi method. Eight main statements have been established, each of them comprising different issues, covering the fields of wound classification, infectious risk stratification, tetanus and rabies prophylaxis, wound cleansing, pain management, and suture. Here we present the results of this work, shared by the Academy of Emergency Medicine and Care (AcEMC), and the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES).
KW - Foreign body
KW - Infection
KW - Rabies
KW - Suture
KW - Tetanus
KW - Traumatic wounds
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U2 - 10.1186/s13017-016-0084-3
DO - 10.1186/s13017-016-0084-3
M3 - Letter
AN - SCOPUS:84975132437
VL - 11
JO - World Journal of Emergency Surgery
JF - World Journal of Emergency Surgery
SN - 1749-7922
IS - 1
M1 - 30
ER -