Talk:Wound

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1 Wound healing
2 Copyvio and redundancy
3 Technically...
4 Cleanup
5 Police
6 Medical advice
7 Interesting link about new method for infection screening

[edit] Wound healing

I removed the following from this section:

Make sure you wash your hands, continously, to prevent contamination of the wound. Always use diposible gloves if available(found in stores everywhere).

Make sure you know what you're doing before you touch the wound in any way.

After you're finished cleaning the wound, cover it to prevent infection.

... since it doesn't make much sense, and the content is already mentioned in the article. If someone wants to rephrase it and put it back please do - I'm not really sure what this section is meant to say but I'm fairly sure the above doesn't add anything to the article. Tjwood 13:08, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio and redundancy

the contents of the wound healing section were clearly cut and pasted from this page so I cut them out. There is already a wound healing phases page so I left a blurb and linked to that instead. I'll expand the phases page soon.

Also, I'm a little concerned about the medical advice this article gives. It seems like some of the wording is vague and could be misinterpreted, causing harm. like when it says, 'remove the cause of the injury', do you think that could be interpreted as 'pull the thing out of the wound'? I think it should be made clearer that you should never remove an impaled object. And when it talks about touching a wound, isn't there a concern about body fluids and disease transmission? It seems like this is a really cursory treatment of wound care anyway, and that could lead to harm to the patient. maybe we should link to a more complete first aid guide. Also, you know there's already a first aid page. --Delldot 18:35, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Technically...

The first line of the article says, "A wound is type of a physical trauma wherein the skin is torn, cut or punctured." But as I understand it, closed fractures, sprains, bruises and the like are also technically wounds; the skin does not have to be opened. Can anyone confirm or gainsay? Delldot 23:36, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Looks like this has been corrected. :) delldot | talk 04:11, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I marked this article as requiring cleanup as the first aid section doesn't seem very encyclopedic, and needs stylistic improvements anyway. -- Earle Martin 16:29, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Agree. It needs to be more systematic e.g. according to depth/severity. I am not aware of grading scales for wounds, but they may exist. JFW | T@lk 17:32, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Police

It is to be noted that gunshot and wounds caused by bladed weapons, blunt force weapons are reported to the police by all hospitals in the U.S.A., as are certain trauma, wounds. Martial Law 00:02, 22 March 2006 (UTC) :)

[edit] Medical advice

This article gives first aid direction and reads like a how to manual, which Wikipedia is not. There are also WP:MOS concerns about addressing the reader. I suggest a major edit to the page to remove this material. I'm going to tag the problematic section. delldot | talk 06:44, 27 December 2006 (UTC)