Laceration Evaluation

Published: March 5, 2017, 10 a.m.

Lacerations are the single best opportunity to demonstrate your procedural skills during your clerkship!!! To Close or Not To Close? Closing a wound with sutures, etc = Healing by \u201cprimary intention\u201d INCREASES risk of infection but DECREASES scar Leaving a wound open = Healing by \u201csecondary intention\u201d DECREASES risk of infection but INCREASES scar Step [\u2026]