Dirty Wounds, Smart Decisions: Preventing Infection in Wilderness Wound Care
About this episode
This episode discusses the importance of preventing infection in wilderness wound care and the significance of thorough irrigation and cleaning.
Cuts and lacerations are among the most common injuries encountered in the backcountry, but in wilderness medicine the greatest threat often isn’t the wound itself—it’s infection. In this episode of the AWLS Wilderness Medicine Podcast, we explore why nearly every wilderness wound should be considered contaminated and why thorough irrigation and cleaning are often far more important than closing the skin. Through real-world wilderness cases, listeners will learn when wounds should be left ope...
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