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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 “primary intention” INCREASES risk of infection but DECREASES scar Leaving a wound open = Healing by “secondary intention” DECREASES risk of infection but INCREASES scar Step […]
By Zack Olson, MD ; Mike Estephan, MD ; Maddie Watts, MD4.9
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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 “primary intention” INCREASES risk of infection but DECREASES scar Leaving a wound open = Healing by “secondary intention” DECREASES risk of infection but INCREASES scar Step […]

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