First Aid in Accidental Wounds

First aid in cases of wounds, fractures, as well as thermal and chemical burns

A wound (vulnus) is defined as a break in the body covering. The continuity of skin is broken and the inner tissues are in contact with the surrounding environment, thus a portal of infection is formed, through which pathogenic microorganisms may enter the body. During visual wound examination, special attention is paid to the location, size, shape, margin, channel and bottom of the wound. Woun...

First Aid in Childbirth

First Aid

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First Aid in Accidents

Chromosome first aid.

Most people take the stability of chromosomes for granted. Some may imagine metaphase chromosomes lined up like a butterfly collection on a page, reassuringly in order and unchanging. However, evidence that has been accumulating for over half a century indicates that genome stability is a dynamic, not a static, process. In the 1940s natural chromosomes ends, or telomeres, were shown to be speci...