What Are Traumatic Wounds? Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

 

What Are Traumatic Wounds?

Also known as extensive wounds, traumatic wounds are defined as sudden or unplanned injuries that can range from minor to severe, for example, injuries from road traffic accidents, gunshot wounds, domestic injuries, or burns from heat, cold, electricity, and chemicals, etc. In other words, traumatic wounds generally include cuts, lacerations or puncture wounds, skin tears, bites or penetrating wounds, etc. It can be the cuts by knife, skin abrasions from metal or glass, skin crushing, or animal bites. A huge proportion of people surviving their injuries suffer from temporary or permanent disabilities. 

In simple words, trauma is severe damage to the soft tissues in the skin. It is a medical condition where the soft tissues of the skin sustain an injury or break down. When the skin is ripped or torn and has a jagged appearance, it is an acute wound and it typically contains foreign bodies such as gravel, glass, metal, or sand. Penetrating wounds are deeper and considered the most severe of all traumatic wounds as they form as the result of being stabbed or sustaining any gunshot wound. A traumatic cut wound occurs when a sharp object penetrates the skin or the underlying subcutaneous tissues. 

What Are The Symptoms Of Traumatic Wounds?

Traumatic wounds can be defined as the medical condition where you can notice deep cuts and a single deep cut in the skin or flesh or skin piercing that results in a hole in the skin. Some of the symptoms are as below:

1. Swelling and redness
2. Bleeding or oozing blood
3. You can suffer from fever with infection
4. Drainage or pus etc.

Causes of Traumatic Wounds

There can be several reasons that can cause traumatic wounds. The main causes are as follows:

1. Incisions are caused by knives. The cuts from these types of wounds are generally clean-edged.
2. Abrasions occur from the scraping of the skin and it can contain some type of foreign material like gravel, sand, metal, or glass.
3. Laceration
4. Accidents
5. Sports injury
6. Punctures
7. Any trauma due to force. This is the type of traumatic wound which is generally associated with motor vehicle accidents with crushed body parts or the skin with a variety of lacerations and cut wounds.
8. Gunshots and bullet wounds that can cause both entry and exit wounds.
9. Any type of animal bites that penetrates the skin and tissues etc.

What Are The Risks In Traumatic Wounds?

There are some common risks of trauma wounds which include:

1. Infection
2. Gangrene
3. Lack of immunity
4. Sudden weight lose
5. Inflammation or bulging scar tissue etc.

How Traumatic Wounds Are Diagnosed?

This is an extensive injury where the doctors & nurses at Traumatic Wound Care will visit the patient’s location and examine the affected area. They can also recommend imaging or specialist tests to evaluate the current condition and suitable treatment for quicker and effective healing. The tests depend upon the nature of the treatment.

What Are The Treatment Options For Traumatic Wounds?

The treatment for traumatic wounds can involve simply cleaning and dressing the wound or it can require advanced surgical intervention to seal the wound and settle the patient due to the complexity of traumatic wounds and their vast range of etiologies. It involves damage repair to the body’s underlying tissue structures, cleaning any foreign material and allowing for drainage of the wounds, etc. There are several treatment options for traumatic wounds. Here they are:

1. Laceration
2. Penetration wound
3. Abrasions

If you notice any deep or infected wound, it requires medical attention. Bedside Wound Care in San Diego is a trusted team of trained and qualified physicians and nurses providing quality, advanced and standardized traumatic wound management to patients in the comfort of their home.