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KMID : 0616619960020020105
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Journal of Soonchunhyang Medical College
1996 Volume.2 No. 2 p.105 ~ p.110
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Management of Facial Lacerations
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Abstract
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Soft tissue facial lacerations are the most common type of injuries, and vary from simple contusion to massive avulsing type lacerations with complete loss of tissue. Managing the facial injury by the physician up to the time of establishing definitive diagnosis and starting treatment.
Best to assume that in every injured face, major life-threatening problems exist. These relate primarily to airway, bleeding, other problems associated diagnosis.
Then and only then does the repair of facial laceration, up to 24: hours, with proper dressing and administration of appropriate antibio,:Z;S and the final aesthetic result is not jeopardized.
As in all facial injuries one must keep in mind the psychologic impact that such injuries may have upon the patient and his family. During the recovery period, when the patient realizes that he will not die as the result of his injury, irregular facial scars and distorted facial features, secondary-to avulsion of major facial structures, may make the patients outlook on life difficult and at times unbearable.
I write this paper about basic emergency care, local management of facial lacerations, for wished that a little taken at the original repair may help to avert some of these patients problems.
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