Risk factors for dehiscence and evisceration include age, diabetes, obesity, malnutrition, corticosteroid therapy, and sepsis. Wound infection is directly associated with over 50% of eviscerations [1]. Surgical technique can contribute to wound dehiscence.
The causes of dehiscence are similar to the causes of poor wound healing and include ischemia, infection, increased abdominal pressure, diabetes, malnutrition, smoking, and obesity.
There are four main causes of wound evisceration: suture tearing through the fascia, knot failure, suture failure, and extrusion of abdominal contents between sutures placed too far apart.
Evisceration of abdominal contents usually occurs after a stab or slash wound to the abdomen or after recent laparotomy. It is an indication for laparotomy. Other indications for laparotomy in penetrating abdominal trauma include unexplained shock and evidence of blood in the stomach, bladder, or rectum.
A poor diet, high blood pressure and cholesterol, stress, smoking and obesity are factors shaped by your lifestyle and can be improved through behavior modifications. Risk factors that cannot be controlled include family history, age and gender.
Preventive measures to avoid wound dehiscence and wound evisceration include client coaching and teaching the client how to splint their incisional area when coughing, sneezing, vomiting and when doing planned, routine coughing and deep breathing exercises post operatively.
Patients with a medical history of stroke or who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, or cancer also have higher rates of dehiscence. Some patient behaviors can also increase the risk of dehiscence. Smoking, for example, is a risk factor.
To prevent dehiscence, teach patients to splint the surgical site when coughing, vomiting, or sneezing. An abdominal binder for those at risk for dehiscence may be helpful, but evidence supporting its use is still needed. Heavy lifting (10 lbs or more) should be avoided for 6 to 8 weeks after surgery.
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Evidence notes that wound dehiscence may occur in up to 3% of abdominal surgeries and can cause significant complications. In some cases, only the edges of an incision may pull apart in one or more small areas.
Possible contraindications to bedside incision and drainage include large and deep abscesses, the presence of a pulsatile mass at the site of infection, proximity to the vasculature and nervous structures, the presence of a foreign body, and particular locations of an abscess.
Wound healing can be delayed by systemic factors that bear little or no direct relation to the location of the wound itself. These include age, body type, chronic disease, immunosuppression, nutritional status, radiation therapy, and vascular insufficiencies.
Practice bracing: When doing any activity that puts stress on the wound (sneezing, coughing, vomiting, laughing, bearing down for a bowel movement) apply pressure over your incision using your hands or a pillow. This can both prevent wound dehiscence and minimize pain.
The patient showing abdominal wall dehiscence with evisceration of the small intestine is placed in the supine position under general anesthesia. The contaminated edges of the wound including a combination of the peritoneum and rectus fascia are excised.
Initial management of abdominal evisceration for prehospital providers consists of assessing for and controlling associated hemorrhage, assessing for bowel content leakage, covering the eviscerated abdominal contents with a moist, sterile barrier, and carefully reassessing the patient.
If an evisceration is found, the nurse should immediately notify the provider and cover the wound with a nonadherent dressing that is pre-moistened with sterile normal saline.
The usual indications for evisceration are unresponsive endophthalmitis and for improvement of cosmesis in a blind eye, while enucleation is indicated for the previous two conditions as well as for painful blind eye, intraocular malignancy, severe ocular trauma, phthisis with degeneration, and in congenital ...
Evisceration occurs when the jejunum passes through the vaginal ring and the open scrotum is unable to contain the jejunum. It is an infrequent complication following castration in most breeds and typically occurs in the first few hours following castration.
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