Techniques for wound management were born from the arts of war surgeons, today these techniques are having a new renaissance in the era of modern medicine. Acute wounds are one of the most common conditions requiring treatment in the emergency departments. Wounds are in surgery defined as an anatomical and functional disruption of tissue or organ integrity. Patients sustaining acute traumatic wounds reported prevention of wound infection as the single most important treatment outcome. For a physician, it is important to identify the characteristics of wound and patient conditions that will interfere with wound healing by increasing the risk for developing infection. In order to inspect the wound in detail, make an appropriate debridement, and alleviate the patient’s pain and discomfort, the wound should be anesthetized using local anesthetics. Indications for the use of antiseptics to reduce microbiological contamination in the acute cutaneous wound are still unclear in comparison with wound cleansing using a sterile saline solution. The main reason to avoid usage of antiseptics in wounds is probably their proven in vitro cytotoxicity, whereas, in vivo evidence is lacking for certain antiseptics. In surgical practice, the wounds are most often closed by suturing using various surgical sutures, while tissue adhesives and adhesive tapes are less commonly used techniques. Often underestimated but necessary steps in the management of an acute wound are wound dressings, wound bandaging and wound aftercare proceeding discharge from an emergency department. Inadequate wound dressing or inadequate wound aftercare may worsen, despite the best surgical management, wound healing outcomes. This graduate thesis aims to provide an overview of evidence-based wound management techniques and to point out established surgical rules (dogma) in the field of wound management.