What is a skin avulsion?

  When accidents happen, we cross our fingers for simple cuts and scrapes that can effectively heal on their own with little effort on our end. However, when serious skin tears occur, intervention is key to proper healing. Here’s your quick guide to avulsion treatment and prevention: Skin avulsions often need stitches to facilitate proper healing. What are avulsions? These injuries occur when a portion of the skin and underlying tissue is partially or completely torn away. The damage often reaches deep enough to cause significant bleeding, and sometimes the force of the injury is enough to completely dislodge a body part. As such, they are especially prone to infection. Common causes of skin avulsions are animal bites, industrial equipment malfunctions and motor vehicle accidents. How do you treat a skin avulsion? Avulsion injuries typically need professional medical attention because of the excessive bleeding and high potential for amputation and infection – especially if they are very large wounds. Verywell Health advised calling 911 immediately if you can’t cover the skin avulsion with both of your palms. However, you can follow these skin avulsion treatment steps before arriving at the hospital: Wash your hands. If the skin avulsion occurred in a place where you can clean your hands, do so before touching the affected area to avoid infection. Control the bleeding. Apply direct pressure with a clean cloth or dressing and elevate the wounded area t...
Source: Advanced Tissue - Category: Dermatology Authors: Tags: Wound Care infection wound infection wound infection treatment healing wounds Source Type: news