re Zinc
Used to use it a lot to"aid healing" of slow to heal lacerations and wounds
as zinc sulphate - it worked well.
Iain McNeil
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From: Dunn Matthew Dr. ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY - SwarkHosp-TR
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: pretibial lacerations
> > Just a quick survey - what are members of the list doing for pretibial
> > lacerations these days?
>
> Steristrip or glue, Jelonet, 3 day review, review until decided whether
flap
> will be of benefit. Never suture, personally (Justification: if it needs
> suture, it needs a flap). Tell my SHOs never to suture. Not routine use of
> antibiotics. Is anyone auditing infection rates? If worried about healing,
> check FBC and indices; start zinc empirically (this may be a hangover from
> neurosurgical days- anyone else use it- particularly the GPs on the list?)
> When I was in Stoke, the plastic surgeons did myocutaneous flaps on most
of
> them. I remember a paper (?about 5 years ago) on time to healing- about 4
> weeks with a flap, about 5 with dressings.
>
> Matt
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