Wound healing in the surgical patient: influence of the perioperative stress response on perfusion.
The clinical effect of surgical stress created by pain, cutting, cold, fear, and hypovolemia is peripheral vasoconstriction which limits wound perfusion and oxygenation and impairs wound healing. Correction of all factors as simultaneously as possible is the goal.
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D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014661:Vasoconstriction / Q000502:physiology*; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*