Laceration

Lacerations that involve the face, are longer than an inch, are deep, or are bleeding heavily, may require stitches.
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Alternate Names
: Laceration, Open Wound, Wound - Cut or Puncture
Definition
A cut is an injury that results in a break or opening in the skin. A laceration is a jagged, irregular cut.
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Lacerations, stab wounds, and even gunshot wounds can occur on any scuba dive or wilderness trip. Punctures, skin tearing, and deep penetrating wounds are very dangerous because bacteria may be injected deep into the tissues.
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laceration
A wound caused by a cut from a sharp instrument or the tearing of body tissue.
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Note: A laceration to the hands or wrists that results in infection that causes tenosynovitis may be an emergency that requires surgery.
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Cuts, or lacerations, are openings into or through the skin. Cuts may just go through the skin or they may go into the deeper fatty or muscle tissues. Scrapes and scratches are areas of damage to the upper layers of skin.
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Vaginal tears (lacerations) are common during childbirth. Recovery times vary depending on the individual, the severity of the injury and the effectiveness of treatment.
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Blunt objects that tear or crush the skin (lacerations). These cuts are more common over bony areas, such as a finger, hand, knee, or foot, but they can occur anywhere on the body.
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Access into the internal jugular vein in the neck can cause laceration of an artery or nerve. This procedure can also cause hematoma (blood clot) formation; damage to local nerves within the area, pneumothorax, or misplaced catheterization.
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Indication: management of full-thickness skin injuries, including trauma wounds such as second-degree burns, abrasions, lacerations, and skin tears; pressure, venous, diabetic, and chronic vascular ulcers; surgical wounds, ...
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Tampons may facilitate the infection because their use may cause lacerations and ulcerations of the vaginal wall, which allow bacteria to enter.
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ANAL FISSURES - Tears or superficial lacerations that can occur in the mucosa that lines the anal canal.
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Sexual practices that include placing objects in the vagina can cause abrasions or lacerations. More common is bleeding from foreign objects that have remained in the vagina, such as toilet tissue or a forgotten tampon.
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Cats have extremely sharp, pointed teeth and can inflict deep puncture wounds and lacerations. The risk of infection is much higher with cat bites (30 to 50%) because a cat's sharp teeth create deeper puncture wounds.
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Lacerations (Wounds)
Lateral Collateral Ligament Injury
LCL Injury (Lateral Collateral Ligament Injury)
Locked Knee (Meniscus Tear)
Marine Animal Sting OR Bite
MCL Injury (Medial Collateral Ligament Injury)
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When vascular injury occurs, the first hemostatic response is a spastic contraction of the lacerated vessels. Next, platelets adhere to the wall of the vessel at the area of laceration in an attempt to plug the hole.
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Infection with the tetanus bacillus may follow any type of injury, whether incurred indoors or out, including nail puncture wounds, insect bites, splinter injuries, gunshot wounds, burns, lacerations, and fractures.
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suture any wound over six hours old, because the bacterial count can double within three hours of a cut. On the other hand, some physicians believe that wounds on the body can usually be sutured if under 18 hours old, and they give facial lacerations ...
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