title: Management of surgical wounds.
abstract: Most surgical wounds are categorised as acute wounds, healing without complication in an expected time frame (Bale and Jones, 1997). However, like all wounds, healing is affected by intrinsic and extrinsic factors that may result in complications.
authors.affiliation: Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust, Cambridgeshire.
authors.forename: Helena
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Baxter
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000451:nursing; D012307:Risk Factors; D013529:Surgical Wound Dehiscence / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*