title: Wound management of the traumatically injured patient.
abstract: All trauma patients have one thing in common: the presence of a wound. The critical care nurse's knowledge of the mechanism of injury, host risk factors, physiology of wound healing, and wound treatment allows the nurse to develop a plan of care which will optimize wound healing. Critical care nurses play a pivotal role in the establishment and maintenance of an environment which will maximize traumatic wound healing.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Flynn
mesh_terms: D001458:Bandages; D003422:Critical Care; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000150:complications / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014945:Wound Healing