Wound healing

patient was a thirty-nine year old woman, Ms LC, who had undergone a laparoscopic peritonectomy. She had a midline abdominal wound that showed slow wound healing. The wound clinical nurse consultant and the doctors during their ward round decided to introduce NPWT to Ms LC’s wound, as this would allow faster healing of her wound. It was Ms LC’s first time to have NPWT on her wound, patient education was provided ensuring a thorough understanding about the procedure. At the same time, a verbal…

Carbohydrate and fat are the other macro nutrients that provide calories. They play important roles in wound healing. Carbohydrates break down into glucose, the major fuel for collagen synthesis. Carbohydrate will still make up 50-60% of the diet. This is important since glucose is the body’s main source of energy for healing and for cell repair and for proper brain function. Some fat is also essential in every diet. Typically, the recommend amount of total fat is 30%. Unsaturated fat such as…

diabetic foot ulcers to decrease healing time and high costs. According to Jarett (2013), NPWT plays an important role in the treatment of this complex problem over other standard moist methods used. Jarrett (2013) also states that it is well documented that NPWT has a higher level of limb salvage than any other methods used to treat foot ulcers. NPWT are devices that consist of specialized dressings that include adhesive drapes and open-cell foam that is cut to fill the wound. This machine…

One of the helpful sources to fix that is stem cell research. Stem cell research is a prospect in which scientists’ research on stem cell and their use as medicine. Stem cell research offers a new prospect in the medical technology for burn and wound care, which is to restore the damaged skin both structurally and functionally to its original state. Stem cell research also helped people to treat and restore their skin in many ways. The technology is been improved a lot and as a result stem…

the perineal muscles. A variety of treatments are being conducted to see if they would decrease the amount of pain and healing caused by the episiotomy. These treatments include: heat in the form of lamps, warm sitz bath, moist packs, and infra-red light therapy. Infra-red light therapy is a form of photo therapy in which the infrared light is directly applied to the episiotomy wound. These rays of light penetrate the skin, helping in the release of nitric oxide thus relaxing the blood vessels…

Introduction The infection at the wound site is a severe kind of problem and it delays regeneration of epidermis and dermis in the wound and slows wound closure. Due to the secretion of microbial enzymes by wound pathogens, a variety of extracellular matrix proteins were degraded. Synthetic antimicrobial therapy used in the wound management and eradication of pathogens. However, it has many shortcomings such as anti-microbial resistance, cyto-toxicity against host tissue and absence of…

Patient presents today with his wife for follow-up on shin wounds. HPI: Patient ended up with 2 wounds, 1 to his left shin in addition to 1 to his right shin. The left shin appears to be healing, it is scabbed over. The wound on the right shin occurred about 2 weeks ago when patient hit his leg on his toolbox. He was seen in clinic on May 22nd and started on antibiotics after a previous trip. He started on clindamycin. Patient finished the clindamycin, he is now on Bactrim for 2 more days.…

digestion/absorption was improved. An early trial with human patients found oral administration of aloe gel effective in the treatment of peptic ulcers. The anti-ulcer activities of Aloe Vera has been attributed to several possible mechanisms including its healing effects, anti-inflammatory properties,…

Background: Diabetic foot ulcers are a costly and devastating complication of diabetes mellitus due to its complexity in wound treatment and as a major reason for non-traumatic amputation. This is a major reason for prolong hospital stays, decreased quality of life, and amputations. The high cost on wound treatment and loss of self-care ability of amputee places heavy burden psychosocially and economically on patients, their family, health care system and the society. Effective measures in…

didn’t know is that aside from its fruit, guava leaves also have the ability to cure external wounds. In some studies about leaves, guava is one of the most effective on the list that has a fast effect of healing. In fact, guava leaves are often used by native people to cure a variety of skin illness and any other external diseases. Guava leaves has hidden compounds that is very effective in healing wounds and also it can be used to cure diarrhea and other internal problems. So the question…