External Wound Management
The type of wound (incision, laceration, puncture etc.) will have a major effect on the way a wound is managed, as will the area of the body affected and the presence of any foreign objects in the wound. The key principles of wound management are:
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Famous quotes containing the words external, wound and/or management:
“The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“These lovers cry, O ho they die!
Yet that which seems the wound to kill
Doth turn O ho! to ha, ha, he!
So dying love lives still.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management of external things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)