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Table 6 Risk factors for poor wound repair outcome [45]

From: Acute wound management: revisiting the approach to assessment, irrigation, and closure considerations

Immunosuppression

Tissue ischemia

Poor wound repair

Wound factors

• Chemotherapeutic agents

• Anemia

• Connective tissue disorders

• Contamination

• Chronic renal failure

• Peripheral vascular disease

• Elderly

• Crush injuries

• Congenital immunodeficiencies

• Vasculitis

• Malnourished

• Foreign bodies

• Diabetes

  

• Location

• Hematologic malignancies

  

• Tissue loss

• Steroids

   
  1. Adapted from Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine. Reprinted with permission from The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc
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International Journal of Emergency Medicine

ISSN: 1865-1380

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