Chronic wound

additional breakdown or damages to the skin around wound in the course of dressing change or old dressing removal. Patient that is living with a wound is often stained when outflow caused by the…

More Americans have died during the Civil War than any other war. 620,000 soldiers died in the line of duty. Two-thirds of these didn’t die from wounds. They died from diseases such as typhoid and dysentery. Civil War medicine was not yet advanced enough to connect a lack of hygiene with an influx of disease. Lack of hygiene in hospitals and camps also contributed to the spread of disease. Placing a latrine downstream away from the clean water supply was sometimes also overlooked. Disease spread…

Blastomycosis in Dogs Jaime Green Volunteer State Community College 15 April 2017 Blastomycosis, also known as North American Blastomycosis and Gilchrist’s Disease in humans, is a fungal infection caused by the organism Blastomyces Dermatitidis. This fungus occurs naturally in North America and infections are most often seen in geographic areas located near water, such as Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Missouri river basins. This systemic yeast like fungal infection occurs…

Carbon in Wound Care Malodor, or odors that come from wounds, can be a challenge for both the patient and the care giver. The malodor can be quite unpleasant and may make the patient feel uncomfortable or embarrassed from it, causing them to isolate themselves and possibly delay much needed treatments. Delay of treatment can either prolong the healing process or make the wound worse. The odor usually comes from anaerobic bacteria that colonizes dead and dying tissues of wounds. The wound does…

Proper care for an open wound can lead to a quick recovery and a decreased risk of infection. An infection is caused by exposure to bacteria and pathogens. If an open wound contracts an infection, then it can lead to further complications with the healing process. Therefore, is it important to keep the wound dressing changed regularly. There are several key steps to follow from the removal of the bandages to reapplying new bandages. The first step in changing an open wound bandage is gathering…

Introduction Enzymatic non-surgical wound debridement is a treatment to remove dead tissue from a wound. This helps the wound heal. This treatment uses an ointment or spray that contains proteins (enzymes) that can break down dead tissue in the wound over time. This allows your body to repair the wound by growing more healthy tissue. Depending on the wound, this treatment may be used along with another technique to remove dead tissue (debridement), such as: Surgical debridement. Autolytic…

Traditionally, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) has been used for chronic wounds, like non healing diabetic ulcerations or dehisced surgical incisions. NPWT is quite successful for these types of wounds, but recently there has been a trend to use NPWT for burn victims. This paper summarizes a case of 5 patients who were burned in a dust explosion in Taiwan in 2015 and NPWT was used, not only to treat the wounds, but also to facilitate the skin grafting. NPWT was first approved for use by…

In the 1860s, there was neither a doctor nor even nurse that had yet come up or establishes biology and was semi dumb of the causes and reasons of such diseases in the 1860s. In the Civil War doctors went too medical school for only about two or four years more of school. Now in the Civil War time period medical improvements were so little, they practically wasn’t there at all, and that goes the same for doctors. The medicine time in the 1860s was the new start of the equipment that we use today…

During the civil war, if someone had been shot and there was no exit wound, but there seemed to be little internal damage, the entrance wound would be treated and sewed up to prevent infection and further injury. The patient’s body would heal around the bullet, and all would be relatively okay. Since Garfield was the president of the United States of America…

with war, making the process of saving soldiers’ lives more efficient and simple. Medicine was made to be easily used by soldiers with minor wounds on the battlefields, to not exhaust the energy of the medics and to quickly aid the wound. For instance, sulfanilamide, can be sprinkled on an open wound and dressed with a bandage to prevent infection of open wounds. This process can be completed by not only medics but also soldiers as well. Sulfa powder was not the only medical improvement that…