Wound

you a time frame for the crime by the way the blood coagulates and dries. There are three types of bloodstains passive stains, transfers stains and impact stains. Passive stains are just gravity reacting with blood and naturally pooling from a wound or falling. Transfer stains come from a bloody object interacting with another object that causes the blood to be transferred for…

treatments for diseases were highly dangerous to people’s health. All this plus the wounds that soldiers received during battle caused approximately 620,000 soldiers deaths during the war. of these 620,000 2/3ths of the deaths were due to disease not wounds during battle. The top two killer diseases during the civil war were Dysentery and Typhoid fever. During the Civil war, more soldiers died of disease rather than wounds in battle. According to an article written Civil War Casualties…

Regeneration is the process of renewal or restoration of a body, part of the body or biological system after a wound or as a normal process. It is the process that makes the genomes, cells and organisms flexible to natural changes that cause disturbances or damage. All species are able to regenerate from bacteria to humans. Regeneration can be of two types: it can be complete when the new tissue is equal to the lost or incomplete tissue when the necrotic tissue presents fibrosis. Different…

by my past experiences which made me appreciate the field and merits of nursing. As a new nurse, I gave little thought to the physiology behind wounds themselves, often finding myself just carrying out care orders and trying to prevent complication. It was 8 years ago when I became a home care nurse and had some real life exposure to the effects of wounds/ostomy’s on a patient's overall health and self-conception. My goals after becoming WOC is first to broaden my knowledge in the use of…

bacteria from the external harmful sphere, once this barrier is broken the body is easily infected by dangerous bacterias and infections. These infections can be devastating to the human body. One of the diseases that can be contracted by puncture wounds to the human flesh is tetanus, commonly known to the public as lockjaw. The disease tetanus is a serious infection from the bacterium Clostridium tetani. This bacterium produces a toxin that affects the brain and nervous system that leads to…

MATERIALS AND METHOD FOR BURN SCAR BIOMECHANIC BURN WOUND GENERATION All experiments and data collection were performed following approved protocols of the Ohio State University Institutional Laboratory Animal Care and Use Committee. A female red Duroc pig was maintained on standard chow ad libitum and being fasted overnight at other piggery. The animal had been anesthetized with Telazol and isoflurance. Anesthetic is a rapid and reversible drug-induced change in behavior or perception. Then…

times until the thread's shape looks like a bow tie. The middle of the thread should contain the wound portion. Move the wound portion from one end of the bow tie to the other by spreading the fingers of one hand while keep the fingers of the other hand closed. Get used to moving the wound area back and forth by repeating the alternating close-and-open motion. Once you are used to maneuvering the wound portion back and forth, you can now begin threading your body hair. Before you start…

change is wound care and assessment to prevent further complications or re-hospitalizations. Nurses must take into account comorbidities, individual wound-care requirements; assistance the patient may need due to physical or mental deficits, and nutritional support ("Providing wound care in the home: An option to explore," 2012). Additional factors that affect wound-care strategies include wound characteristics, family support, and insurance guidelines and reimbursement ("Providing wound care…

painful. Keloids are the product of a wound or cut and are not contagious. Keloids are most likely appear on people with a darker tone of skin, such as those of African American, Hispanic, and Asian descent. Also, it runs in families and is more common among the ages ten to twenty. Keloids are formed from the excessive healing of a wound. According to aafp.org, “After a skin injury, your cells try to repair the damage by forming a scar. This scar holds the wound together. In some people, the…

Entering any hospital as patient can lead to two ways either to be cured or put the patient in harm. It is very important to know how to prevent any errors or adverse effects might be happen, to gain trust to health care system. Patient safety is an important element of health care system and it becomes a serious public health issue. According to WHO patient safety defined as prevention of adverse outcomes or errors to the patient associated with medical care. Whereas from the patient point…