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The initial responses of a tissue to injury are highly predictable : there is bleeding and haemostasis, inflammation, swelling and oedema, heat and pain. This tissue response to injury then progresses to healing, and the process of normal tissue healing is also predictable: inflammation and debridement lead to regeneration to repair. Different tissues achieve these goals in different ways and timescales vary according to the injury and the tissue, and even with the species, but healing should progress with these basic processes. The chapter looks at the following: Phases of wound healing; Healing of surgical incisions; Clinical expectation of surgical wound healing; Factors affecting surgical wound healing; Complications of surgical wound healing; Techniques to avoid complications in surgical wound healing; and Healing of other tissues.
Healing of elective surgical wounds, Page 1 of 1
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